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    Museum collections / The Cleveland Museum of Art
    Head of a Young Woman Seen from Below
    Adolph Menzel. Head of a Young Woman Seen from Below, 1886. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00011759

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    Head of a Young Woman Seen from Below

    by Adolph Menzel

    Also known as: Head of a Woman

    Inscriptions

    signed, lower right, in graphite: A.M. [underlined] / 86 ; VERSO, upper right, in graphite: 10 ; lower left, in brown ink: 18607

    Provenance

    [Otto Wertheimer]

    Exhibition history

    Year in Review, 1976. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977). German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980). National Schools of Style. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 14-September 18, 1983). Directions in Drawing II: The Human Figure. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1991-January 12, 1992). The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Adolph von Menzel (German, 1815–1905)
    Date
    1886
    Medium
    graphite with stumping (traces of white paint, lower left, unrelated to composition)
    Dimensions
    Sheet: 19.9 x 12.6 cm (7 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    Drawing
    Department
    Drawings
    Credit line
    Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
    Accession no.
    1976.21

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