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The Mothers

(German, 1867–1945)
1921
Medium/TechniqueBrush and black ink and opaque white watercolor
DimensionsSheet: 45.4 x 58.8 cm (17 7/8 x 23 1/8 in. )
Credit LineFrederick Brown Fund
Accession number55.224
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDrawings
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.r: Käthe Kollwitz / Zeichnung zu den Müttern; in another hand: 1887
Provenance1955, sold by the Galerie St. Etienne, New York, to the MFA for $275. (Accession Date: April 14, 1955)
Drawing for "Gretchen"
Käthe Kollwitz
about 1900
Old Man with Beard
Käthe Kollwitz
about 1928
The Widow
Käthe Kollwitz
1918
Self-Portrait
Käthe Kollwitz
1921
John Perry Newell
1854–98
Restricted: For reference only
Harry Fenn
1870–79
Ernst Heinemann
1868–98
Seated Woman with Folded Hands
Käthe Kollwitz
1905–06
A Vestal Virgin Entombed
Giovanni David
after 1775
John William North
1867