Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind
1893
- Medium
- graphite (carpenter's pencil), with stumping
- Dimensions
- 41.4 × 28.9 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193539
Adolph Menzel left more than 5,000 drawings created during a long and successful career that spanned the 19th century. Near the end of his life, when this drawing was made, he used a carpenter's pencil--a broad, flat-pointed lead pencil made of soft graphite--and stumping (rubbing with bits of tightly rolled paper or leather) to created numerous studies of heads of models that he considered independent works of art. In this drawing of a woman seen from behind from the shoulders up, the virtuosity of Menzel's stumping creates the effect of tangible surfaces and light falling on them, especiall…
Provenance
Wade Fund, 1994.103
Registry history
- 1893 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — drawings
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