About the Artwork
Convent Kitchen
late 19th or early 20th century
Ferdinand Schmutzer
1870-1928
Austrian
Unknown
Soft-ground etching in brown on wove paper
Plate: 8 × 7 3/8 inches (20.3 × 18.7 cm) Sheet: 11 7/8 × 10 1/8 inches (30.2 × 25.7 cm)
Prints
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Bequest of Hal H. Smith
45.385
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower center: F. Schmutzer
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner of sheet: Convent Kitchen
Provenance
Hal H. Smith
1945-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Weixlgartner, A. Das Radiert Werk von Ferdinand Schmutzer 1896-1921. Vienna: Fritz Mandel, 1922.
Weixlgartner, A. "Von Ferdinand Schmutzers letzten Arbeiten," Die Graphischen Kunste, 52 (1929): 69-96.
"Dem Andenken Ferdinand Schmutzers." Mittleilungen der Gesellschaft fur Vervielfaltigende Kunst. 1930, pp. 25-26.
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Ferdinand Schmutzer, Convent Kitchen, late 19th or early 20th century, soft-ground etching in brown on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Hal H. Smith, 45.385.
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