Paula Modersohn-Becker (German, 1876–1907)

Seated Old Woman (Sitzende Alte)

Date:

(c. 1899-1902)

Medium:

Etching and aquatint

Dimensions:

plate: 7 3/8 x 5 3/4" (18.8 x 14.6 cm); sheet: 10 1/16 x 8 3/8" (25.6 x 21.3 cm)

Paper:

Cream, smooth, wove.

Publisher:

unknown

Printer:

unknown

Edition:

posthumous edition (1913-14), single print: small number printed on "China paper" by Otto Felsing, Berlin, and published by Horenverlag; portfolio edition for Die Schaffenden, vol. 1, no. 1 (1919): 150; posthumous edition (1922-23 and after), single print: an unknown number printed on "Bütten" paper by Otto Felsing, Berlin, or Herbert Jaeckel, Worpswede; plus few impressions printed during the artist's lifetime

Credit Line:

Larry Aldrich Fund

Reference:

Pauli 2. Stoermer 50. Werner 3. Söhn 72701-4.

MoMA Number:

129.1954

Techniques:

Intaglio