Tannhäuser

Not on View

Medium

pen and black ink with gray wash heightened with white

Dimensions

overall: 18.5 x 18.7 cm (7 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Zatlin 2016, no. 195

Accession Number

1943.3.1456

Artists / Makers

Aubrey Beardsley (artist) British, 1872 - 1898

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right, in image, in black ink: TANNHAUSER; verso, at lower right, in graphite: RS 345

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

Presented by the artist to Dr. Rowland Thurnam [1868 - 1941]; (Maggs Brothers, London). (Charles J. Sawyer, London, 1929); (Richard Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1966: Aubrey Beardsley, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Gallery of Modern Art and the Huntington Hartford Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966-68, no. 131.

1998: Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; and Gunma Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan, 1998, no. 20, repro.

2006: The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2020: Aubrey Beardsley, Tate Britain, London; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2020-2021, no. 4, repro.

Bibliography

1959: Vallance, 27?.

2016: Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonne. Vol. I. New Haven and London, 2016: no. 195.