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Adolph von Menzel

A Couple Looking at a Painting

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Adolph von Menzel

(Breslau 1815 - 1905 Berlin)

A Couple Looking at a Painting


Carpenter’s pencil with stumping;

signed and dated in graphite, lower right: A Menzel / 93.

inscribed in graphite, verso: Scherflein? F. d. Lotterie / d. Killerf. D. Mundo – K.G.

131 by 213 mm; 5⅛ by 8⅜ in.

Private collection, Frankfurt-am-Main;

with Kunsthandel Martin Moeller, Hamburg, 2004,

where acquired by Diane A. Nixon

New York, The Morgan Library & Museum; Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Private Treasures: Four Centuries of European Master Drawings, 2007, no. 87 (entry by Christopher With)

See note to lot 108.