The Choirstalls in the Mainz Cathedral
Adolph Menzel
1869
Medium
Watercolor and gouache (with gum arabic); framing lines in graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 8 7/8 x 11 3/8 in. (22.6 x 28.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, 2006 Benefit Fund, 2007
Accession Number
2007.169
Tags
Human FiguresInteriors
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 ...