The Waterproof Coat of General Moltke
1871
Medium
graphite with black and gray wash heightened with white gouache on tan wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 39.6 x 25.4 cm (15 9/16 x 10 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Helen Porter and James T. Dyke
Accession Number
2007.111.127
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 ...