Adolph Menzel

The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse



Adolph Menzel - The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse



Adolph Menzel
The Artist's Sitting Room in Ritterstrasse
1851
32 x 27 cm
Oil on paper, mounted on cardboard
Signed and dated, lower right: A.M. / 51
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Purchase, Nineteenth-Century, Modern and Contemporary Funds, Leonora Brenauer Bequest, in memory of her father, Joseph B. Brenauer, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, and Paul L. and Marlene A. Herring and John D. Herring Gift, 2009


Exhibitions

2011 Room with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century, Nr. 23

Provenance

the artist, Berlin, until died 1905
private collection, Hanover
private collection, Germany, in 1920
Nicolai, Berlin
von Kreibig, Lugano, until about 1941–42, sold to Nathan
with Fritz Nathan, St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1941/42–47, sold on 20 January 1947 to Bührle
Emil Georg Bührle, Zürich, 1947–at least 1955
private collection, Zürich, until 2009, sold through John & Paul Herring & Co., New York, to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2009.64

Other works by Adolph Menzel


Adolph Menzel View from a Window in Marienstrasse
View from a Window in Marienstrasse
1867

Adolph Menzel The Artist's Bedroom in Ritterstrasse
The Artist's Bedroom in Ritterstrasse
1847

Adolph Menzel Sitting Room of Justice Minister Carl Anton von Maercker
Sitting Room of Justice Minister Carl Anton von Maercker
1847-48

Adolph Menzel Room of a Bookdealer
Room of a Bookdealer
1848

Adolph Menzel The Balcony Room
The Balcony Room
1845