Art, literature & history
Woman before a Fire
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- lithograph on wove paper
- Dimensions
- image: 23.6 x 17.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 in.) sheet: 46.4 x 29.9 cm (18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1996.9.3
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adolph Menzel. Woman before a Fire. Adolph Menzel; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adolph_Menzel,_Woman_before_a_Fire,_1851,_NGA_93717.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Woman before a Fire — Adolph Menzel. 1851.
Medium: lithograph on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 23.6 x 17.8 cm (9 5/16 x 7 in.) sheet: 46.4 x 29.9 cm (18 1/4 x 11 3/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1996.9.3. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.