Tile Design for Ceramic Stove with Female Figures

Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

1911–20

Medium/TechniquePen and black ink, with watercolor and opaque white wash, over graphite pencil on cream wove graph paper

DimensionsImage: 16.8 x 25 cm (6 5/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
Sheet: 28 x 28.7 cm (11 x 11 5/16 in.)

Credit LineGift of Jessie H. Wilkinson—Jessie H. Wilkinson Fund

Accession number2010.502

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InscriptionsIn black ink, l.l.: M. Klinger/ GrossjenaProvenanceCollection of financier Johannes Lehmann, Leipzig; after Lehmann's death (1971) to his daughter, Jutta Schuster (Cologne, died 2007) and her husband, Orientalist scholar Prof. Hans-Siegfried Schuster (1910-2002) [a portion of the Lehmann collection also to the Landesmuseum Sachsen-Anhalt, Halle]; May 17, 2008, Lehmann/Schuster collection auctioned at Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne [sale 920, lot 1299]; sold to Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel, Munich; sold by Daxer & Marschall Kunsthandel to the MFA Boston.(Accession Date: June 16, 2010)