Cleveland Museum of Art
Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (Rheinfall von Schaffhausen)
Adolph von MenzelLinkedCulture matchlcp-a482fd9c0acd
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- graphite, with stumping (traces of white paint, along left edge, unrelated to composition)
- Culture
- Germany, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 152267
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Menzel was one of the most celebrated and prolific painters in Germany during the 19th century. A meticulous draftsman, he executed detailed drawings in preparation for each of his paintings. Thousands of the artist’s notebook studies have survived. Many of them were studies of heads, half-figures, and landscape vignettes to be incorporated into his paintings. This sheet depicting a waterfall and bridge shrouded in mist is an example of one of Menzel’s exquisite graphite studies.
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- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Provenance
- Adolf Glüenstein, Hamburg | Adolf Glüenstein, Hamburg (Lugt 123, verso, lower center, in blue ink). [C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf]
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