About the Artwork
Standing Mother Feeding Her Little Boy
1928
Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz
1867-1945
German
Unknown
Etching and aquatint printed in black ink on heavy dark cream wove paper
Plate: 7 1/2 × 5 7/8 inches (19.1 × 14.9 cm) Sheet: 15 5/8 × 11 3/4 inches (39.7 × 29.8 cm)
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Gift of Gilbert and Lila Silverman in memory of Jean Holtzman
2010.91
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Markings
Signed, in pencil, lower right: Kollwitz
Inscribed, in pencil, lower left: [small script, possibly Felsing's signature] Inscribed, bottom edge of sheet: Kathe Kollwitz Mutter mit K[...] und Kind Inscribed, center: [illegible] !!! | [illegible] Inscribed, lower right: CEE 33
Collector's stamp, in red ink, lower left corner: [3 stylized Ws (or Bs or Ms) in double circle] (not in Lugt)
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Gilbert and Lila Silverman
2010-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Käthe Schmidt Kollwitz, Standing Mother Feeding Her Little Boy, 1928, etching and aquatint printed in black ink on heavy dark cream wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Gilbert and Lila Silverman in memory of Jean Holtzman, 2010.91.
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