Title
Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind, 1893. Creator: Adolph von Menzel (German, 1815-1905).
Caption
Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind, 1893. In the last two decades of his life, Menzel executed numerous studies of heads of models. Here tonal gradations, from velvety blacks to the palest gray, create a rich effect. The immediacy of the image-the illuminated profile with a mouth slightly open-suggests how the artist captured a fleeting moment. Such drawings are, as the artist wrote, "true to nature" without "being copied from nature with fearful exactitude."
Credit line
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Reference
HRM19F73_424
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
75,6Mb (8,0Mb) / 14,3in x 20,5in / 4303 x 6142 (300dpi)