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Adolph Menzel
1815-1905
Three Studies of Old Woman
1899
Graphite on wove paper, laid down on board.
8 1/4 x 5 1/16 in (210 x 132 mm)
Bequest of Charles Ryskamp.
2010.170
Inscription:
Initialed and dated at upper right, in pencil, "AM / 99"; signed at lower left, in pencil, "A. Menzel".
Provenance:
Dr. Richard Doetsch-Benziger, Basel; sale, Kunstkabinett Stuttgart, 20-21 May 1960, no. 389, repr. Benjamin Sonnenberg, New York; Mrs. Benjamin Sonnenberg; her estate sale, New York, Sotheby Parke Bernet, Inc., 21 November 1980, no. 133, repr. (withdrawn from sale; purchased privately from estate); Charles Ryskamp.
Associated names:
Doetsch-Benzinger, Richard, 1877-1957, former owner.
Sonnenberg, Benjamin, 1901-1978, former owner.
Sonnenberg, Benjamin, Mrs., former owner.
Ryskamp, Charles, former owner.
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