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Portrait Group: Jean Paul, Schiller, Goethe, and Herder by Adolph Menzel — VisualArtsDB

Portrait Group: Jean Paul, Schiller, Goethe, and Herder

Portrait Group: Jean Paul, Schiller, Goethe, and Herder

1855

Medium: Black chalk, heavily fixed, on dark cream card
Dimensions: actual: 44.6 x 57.1 cm (17 9/16 x 22 1/2 in.)
Genre: Drawings
Museum: Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA, US

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