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Drawing for "Gretchen"
Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
about 1900
Medium/Technique
Brush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache on clay coated paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 45.1 x 31 cm (17 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
H. E. Bolles Fund
Accession Number53.488
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsDrawings
Catalogue Raisonné
Nagel/Timm 0148
DescriptionStudy for the etching "Gretchen" (Klipstein 43)
Signed
Graphite lower center: "Kollwitz"
InscriptionsGraphite verso: "30862a"; "Design for Etching Schiefler [sic] 43. / Gretchen. / $125."
Provenance1953, with Gutekunst and Klipstein, Bern (Lagerkat. 48, no. 1070); 1953, sold by Gutekunst and Klipstein to the MFA for $125. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)