The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 10, 2023

The King of Thule

second or third quarter 1800s

Moritz von Schwind

(German, 1804–1871)

Germany, 19th century

Graphite; squared in graphite

Support: Light gray modern laid paper

Sheet: 24.6 x 22.2 cm (9 11/16 x 8 3/4 in.); Image: 14.8 x 13 cm (5 13/16 x 5 1/8 in.)

L. E. Holden Fund 1977.45

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

signed, lower left, in graphite: M. v. Schwind [underlined] ; by artist, upper right, in graphite: 18 ; by artist, lower right, in graphite: 20 ; lower right, in graphite: 20 [underlined] ; VERSO, lower center, in graphite: 629 ; lower center, in graphite: Passonpartous

Provenance
[Paul Drey Gallery, New York]
Exhibition history

Year in Review: 1977. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 28, 1977-January 22, 1978).

German Drawings of the 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries. The Cleveland Museum of Art (April 1-July 13, 1980).

Eastward from the Rhine: Romanticism to Abstraction, 1800-1925. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 12-September 9, 1984).

The German Tradition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-June 27, 1993).

Source URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1977.45