Adolph Menzel

Stille Teilnahme

1887 · Etching · image (to beige tone line): 11 5/8 x 8 1/2 in. (29.5 x 21.6 cm) image (to black framing line): 11 1/8 x 8 in. (28.3 x 20.3 cm) plate: 11 3/4 x 9 in. (29.8 x 22.9 cm)

Stille Teilnahme, Menzel, 1887
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Menzel, Stille Teilnahme, 1887. Etching.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948

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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