THE COLLECTION
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