Woman with a Crushed Velvet Hat
Adolph Menzel
1894
Medium
Graphite
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. (21 x 13 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Richard Krautheimer, 1994
Accession Number
1997.280
Tags
PortraitsWomen
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 ...