Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (Rheinfall von Schaffhausen)
1885 · graphite, with stumping (traces of white paint, along left edge, unrelated to composition) · Sheet: 12.3 x 19.5 cm (4 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Menzel, Falls of the Rhine at Schaffhausen (Rheinfall von Schaffhausen), 1885. graphite, with stumping (traces of white paint, along left edge, unrelated to composition).
The Cleveland Museum of Art · Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
How to look at a Menzel
- Find the darkest passage and notice it is burnished, not hatched.
- Follow a single edge and see where it is hard, where it is lost, and why.
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