Landscape with a Washerwoman

Landscape with a Washerwoman by Adolph Menzel

Medium

graphite with stumping on wove paper

Dimensions

sheet: 20.5 × 12.8 cm (8 1/16 × 5 1/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke in honor of Andrew Robison

Accession Number

2017.171.1

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 ...

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