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Print and Drawings
Howard Mele Gallery
Howard Mele Gallery
Heads of two old men; Sketch of right hand holding hat,
1887
Adolph von Menzel, 1815–1905; born Breslau, Germany (Wrocław, Poland); died Berlin, Germany
1998-165
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Information
Title
Heads of two old men; Sketch of right hand holding hat
Dates
1887
Maker
Medium
Graphite with stumping
Dimensions
20.9 × 12.7 cm (8 1/4 × 5 in.)
frame (estimated): 49.5 × 36.8 × 3.2 cm (19 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Advisory Council of The Art Museum in honor of Allen Rosenbaum on the occasion of his retirement
Object Number
1998-165
Place Made
Europe, Germany
Signatures
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: AM [underlined] | 87
Inscription
in graphite, upper left: [illegible, perhaps WM / - in mirror image]
Culture
Materials
Techniques
Private collection, Hamburg, Germany; [Thomas Le Claire, Hamburg, by 1998);
purchased by Princeton University Art Museum, 1998.
Two Heads of Old Bearded Men in Profile
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1998," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 86-123., p. 101 (illus.), p. 107
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 141 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), pg. 308
