Studies of a Young Woman
Adolph Menzel
1870 or 1879
Medium
Graphite on paper
Dimensions
6 1/4 × 9 1/2 in. (15.9 × 24.1 cm) Framed: 18 × 24 in. (45.7 × 61 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.869
Tags
HeadsWomen
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 ...