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Head of a Bearded Man in Half-Profile
Inscriptions
Signed and dated lower right: "A. Menzel / 94"
Provenance
Private collection, by 1962 [suggested in Theodor Storm, 1962]. Sold, Neumeister, Munich, Dec. 12, 1990, lot 268. Private collection, Berlin; sold, Neumeister, Munich, Mar. 28, 2012, lot 1014. Sold by Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Publications
Rolf Hochhuth (ed.), Theodor Storm: Am grauen Meer. Gesammelte Werke (Hamburg: Mosaik, 1962), p. 621 (ill.). James Gurney and Christian Schlierkamp (ed.), Adolph Menzel: Drawings and Paintings (Dover: Mineola, NY, 2016), p. xxiii, 49, fig. 49.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Adolf Menzel / German, 1815-1905
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- Graphite, with stumping and wet brush, on wove paper
- Dimensions
- 41.7 × 29 cm (16 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- graphite
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 2018.18
More by Adolph Menzel in museum collections
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00006176
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