Käthe Kollwitz
Woman with Dead Child

Woman with Dead Child

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Woman with Dead Child
ArtistGerman, 1867–1945
CultureGerman
Titles
  • Woman with Dead Child
Date1903, published 1921
MediumHard- and soft-ground etching, drypoint, and emery with engraving on heavy cream wove paper, state IX/X, from an edition of unknown number
DimensionsPlate: 16 1/8 × 18 1/2 in. (41 × 47 cm)
 Sheet (at open): 17 3/16 × 19 1/2 in. (43.7 × 49.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. and Mrs. Craig S. Calvert
Object number2023.454
Not on view

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Department
Prints and Drawings
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist and/or publisher, 1921; [Galerie St. Etienne, New York, by 2015]; Craig Calvert, Houston, 2015-2023; donated to MFAH, 2023.
Exhibition HistoryNone known for these impressions
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, left bottom edge: Orig. Rad. von Käte Kollwitz.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, center bottom edge: VERLAG VON EMIL RICHTER DRESDEN.
Recto: Inscribed in printed ink, in plate, right bottom edge: Druck v O. Felsing, Berlin-Chittbg.
Recto: Signed in graphite, below plate, right bottom edge: Kathe Kollwitz [cursive]
Verso: [inaccessible]
None known.
Catalogue raisonnéKnesebeck 81 IX/X

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