print
- Museum number
- 2002,0728.48
- Description
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Portrait of the German painter and illustrator Adolf Menzel, half-length seated wearing spectacles. c.1895
Drypoint
- Production date
- 1890-1900
- Dimensions
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Height: 269 millimetres
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Width: 393 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- Text from Martin Hopkinson, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', BMP, 2007, no. 20:
This portrait of the bespectacled, elderly, German realist painter, printmaker and illustrator (1815-1905), relates very closely to the oil painting, now in the Nationalgalerie, Berlin, which Boldini painted on a visit to Berlin in 1895. The Italian artist had long admired Menzel, whom he had met first in Berlin in 1886. This impression is one of only nine pulled during Boldini's lifetime. A further nine were printed in Paris by Eugène Delâtre in 1934 for the artist's widow. These were numbered 10/18 to 18/18. Boldini used the other side of this plate for a drypoint portrait of Madame Jules Weil - Picard.
Presented anonymously, 2002.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2007 Jan.-May BM, 'Italian Prints 1875-1975', cat.20
- Acquisition date
- 2002
- Acquisition notes
- The acquisition was made from an anonymous fund for the purchase of Italian and Israeli works
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2002,0728.48
