The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 10, 2023

Head of a Young Woman Seen from Below

1886

Adolph von Menzel

(German, 1815–1905)

Germany, 19th century

Graphite with stumping (traces of white paint, lower left, unrelated to composition)

Support: Beige(1) wove paper, perimeter mounted to a false margin of beige(1) wove paper

Sheet: 19.9 x 12.6 cm (7 13/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1976.21

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

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).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1976.21