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Portrait of Georg Swarzenski

Portrait of Georg Swarzenski

(German, 1868–1932)
about 1930(?)
Medium/TechniqueDrypoint
DimensionsSheet: 41.7 x 31.5 cm (16 7/16 x 12 3/8 in.)
Platemark: 23.8 x 17.2 cm (9 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Belinda Rathbone in memory of Hanns Swarzenski
Accession number2015.3009
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn graphite, l.r.: Slevogt
ProvenanceAbout 1930, Georg Swarzenski (the sitter; b. 1876 – d. 1957), Frankfurt and Brookline, MA; probably by descent to his son, Hanns Swarzenski (b. 1903 – d. 1985) and given by Hanns Swarzenski to Perry T. Rathbone (b. 1911 – d. 2000), Boston; 2003, by inheritance to his daughter, Belinda Rathbone, Cambridge, MA; 2015, gift of Belinda Rathbone to the MFA. (Accession Date: September 24, 2015)