THE COLLECTION
Paula Modersohn-Becker (German, 1876–1907)
Portrait of a Peasant Woman (Bildnis einer Bäuerin)
- Date:
- (c. 1899-1902, printed 1922-23)
- Medium:
- Etching and aquatint
- Dimensions:
- plate: 4 x 5 1/2" (10.1 x 14 cm); sheet: 10 5/8 x 13" (27 x 33 cm)
- Paper:
- Cream, slightly textured, wove.
- Publisher:
- unknown
- Printer:
- Otto Felsing, Berlin
- Edition:
- posthumous edition (1913-14): small number printed on "China paper" by Otto Felsing, Berlin, and published by Horenverlag; posthumous edition (1922-23 and after): 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 5. Stoermer 49. Werner 6II.
- MoMA Number:
- 128.1954
- Themes:
- Portraits
- Techniques:
- Intaglio