National Gallery of Art · Drawing
Beggars
Käthe Kollwitz
- Date
- 1924
- Medium
- charcoal
- Dimensions
- overall (approximate): 38.4 x 28.8 cm (15 1/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 1943.3.5219
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CG-W
Subjects and terms
- German
- social realism
- genre
- Poverty
Provenance
Unidentified collector, LJR (Lugt Supp.1760b)
Inscription
lower right in graphite: Kathe Kollwitz; lower right verso inscribed by Klipstein
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