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Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein
1751-1829
The Power of Man
1820
Pen and black ink, watercolor, over black chalk, on paper.
13 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches (350 x 444 mm)
Gift of Mrs. Christian H. Aall in honor of Cara Dufour Denison.
1988.11
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Drawing is a preliminary design for the painted version in the Weisser Saal of the Herzog Friedrich Ludwig von Oldenburg, 1822. Another drawing is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. 2011.26.6.
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Signed and dated, lower left, in graphite, "12 Vv...br 1820/ last mit a fegzeinlunt (?)/ E/ Wilhelm Tischbein".
Provenance:
A. Glüensten (Lugt 123), Dr. Grosse, Private Collection, Switzerland; Thomas le Claire, Hamburg; Mrs. Christian H. Aall, New York.
Associated names:
Glüensten, A., former owner.
Grosse, Dr., former owner.
Le Claire, Thomas, former owner.
Aall, Christian H., Mrs., former owner.
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