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Drawing for "Gretchen"
Drawing for "Gretchen"

Drawing for "Gretchen"

Käthe Kollwitz (German, 1867–1945)
about 1900
Medium/TechniqueBrush and gray and black wash, heightened with white gouache on clay coated paper
DimensionsSheet: 45.1 x 31 cm (17 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.)
Credit LineH. E. Bolles Fund
Accession number53.488
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsGraphite verso: "30862a"; "Design for Etching Schiefler [sic] 43. / Gretchen. / $125."Provenance1953, with Gutekunst and Klipstein, Bern (Lagerkat. 48, no. 1070); 1953, sold by Gutekunst and Klipstein to the MFA for $125. (Accession Date: May 14, 1953)