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Heads of two old men; Sketch of right hand holding hat

Adolph von Menzel, German, 1815–1905
1998-165
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Information

Object Number
1998-165
Maker
Adolph von Menzel
Medium
Graphite with stumping
Dates

1887

Dimensions
20.9 × 12.7 cm (8 1/4 × 5 in.) frame (estimated): 49.5 × 36.8 × 3.2 cm (19 1/2 × 14 1/2 × 1 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Advisory Council of The Art Museum in honor of Allen Rosenbaum on the occasion of his retirement
Inscription
Signed and dated in graphite, lower right: AM [underlined] | 87
Type
studies (visual works), drawings
Subject
portraits, hat, heads, elderly, men
Materials
wove paper, graphite

<p>Private collection, Hamburg.</p><p>Purchased by Princeton University Art Museum</p>

Two Heads of Old Bearded Men in Profile

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774795

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1998," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>58, no. 1/2 (1999): p. 86-123., p. 122

3044 1999
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191864564

<em>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection</em> (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), 172 (illus.)

474 2007
http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/865020505

<em>Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections </em>(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 222

1994 2013

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