The Artist's Sister Emilie

Adolph Menzel, 1851

The image shows a woman seated with her arms on her bent knees. She has dark, center-parted hair and wears a long white dress. She appears relaxed with a slightly tilted head and a soft facial expression. The… · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Adolph Menzel ¹
Date: 1851 ¹
Medium: pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper ¹
Original: 3,845 × 4,950 px ¹
License: CC0 (National Gallery of Art Open Access)
Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann

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