- 160
Adolph von Menzel
Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 EUR
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Description
- Adolph Menzel
- Young seated worker
- Signed in ink lower left A. Menzel
- Black pencil on paper
- 20,5 x 12,5 cm ; 8 by 5 in.
Provenance
Duranty Collection ;
His sale, Paris, January 28th 1881, n°63 ;
Henri Rouart Collection ;
His sale, Paris, December 10 - 11th 1912, n°208
His sale, Paris, January 28th 1881, n°63 ;
Henri Rouart Collection ;
His sale, Paris, December 10 - 11th 1912, n°208
Literature
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1880, illustrated p. 109
Catalogue Note
It is probably a study for one of the men sitting on the right in Menzel's important picture painted circa 1872-1875, The Forge (modern cyclops) kept at the Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin.
We would like to thank Dr Marie Riemann-Reyher for authenticating this work from a high definition photograph.