Heads of a Man and a Woman

Adolph Menzel, 1899

The image shows a sketch portraying two individuals in profile, facing right. The person on the left wears a hat with feathers, obscuring their face, and a necklace. The person on the right has angular features and… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Adolph Menzel ¹
Date: 1899 ¹
Medium: graphite with stump ¹
Original: 4,512 × 3,046 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Gift of Ruth B. Benedict in memory of her parents, Sophie and Carl Boschwitz

Object record, National Gallery of Art

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