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Sketchbook with Studies of Children Playing, Women Performing Domestic Tasks, Various Heads, Etc.

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Georg Friedrich Kersting
1785-1847

Sketchbook with Studies of Children Playing, Women Performing Domestic Tasks, Various Heads, Etc.

Leaves: 8 3/16 x 5 1/8 inches (208 x 130 mm)
Graphite on paper; three leaves with some red and black chalk.
1985.48

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund.

Notes
Twenty-seven full-page sketches; some leaves missing.
Leaves loose, with remains of original sketching.
Watermark: letters AF and CF.
Inscriptions/Markings
Numbered by a later hand in graphite, "11" through "145". Inscribed on 145v in graphite, "Skezzenbuch von Kersting".
Associated names
Bergfred, Paul, former owner.
Bibliography
Georg Friedrich Kersting, 1785 Güstrow-Meissen 1847: Zeichnungen aus Skizzenbüchern, C. G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, 1985, some leaves repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 353-354.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department