Heads of a Man and a Woman
Adolph Menzel
1899
Medium
graphite with stump
Dimensions
overall (approximate): 10.5 x 15.6 cm (4 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ruth B. Benedict in memory of her parents, Sophie and Carl Boschwitz
Accession Number
1978.87.1
About the Artist
Adolph Menzel
Adolph Menzel (1815–1905) was a German painter, draftsman, and printmaker who became the most celebrated German artist of the nineteenth century and one of the most technically accomplished realists in European art. Born Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland), he moved to Berlin as a teenager and was largely self-taught, taking over his father's lithographic business ...