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Johann Friedrich Overbeck

Praying Monk, 1826

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Medium

etching with drypoint on chine collé

Dimensions

plate: 11.3 x 7.6 cm (4 7/16 x 3 in.)

sheet: 16.2 x 11.2 cm (6 3/8 x 4 7/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler, Vol. p, no. 548

Accession Number

2005.19.3

Artists / Makers

Johann Friedrich Overbeck (artist) German, 1789 - 1869

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Inscription

upper left in plate: FO (in monogram); by later hand, lower center in graphite: An Etching by F. Overbeck himself-

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2005 by NGA.

Associated Names

von Baeyer, Emanuel

Bibliography

1835: Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, no. 548

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