The Chronicler (recto and verso)

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The Chronicler (recto and verso)

Max KlingerLinkedCulture matchlcp-0e71c982d3c5

Date
April 5, 1888 (recto); April 6, 1888 (verso)
Medium
Graphite, heightened with white goauche (recto and verso), on tan wove paper
Culture
Germany
Department
Prints and Drawings
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
113932

Drawings by the Symbolist artist Max Klinger are very rare. This intimate drawing was completed over April 5-6, 1888, while the artist was staying in Rome on the Via Claudia near the Colisseum. This sensitive figure drawing helped to prepare Klinger's most important painting of those years, The Crucifixion, 1888/1891. In an almost autobiographical reflection, it depicts the scribe who unemotionally documents the world's greatest tragedy that rages around him.

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Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
Provenance
Sold by the Worthington Gallery, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1983.

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