Art, literature & history
The Vest of August the Strong
1840
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 13.3 x 20.7 cm (5 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.111.18
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adolph Menzel. The Vest of August the Strong. 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,_The_Vest_of_August_the_Strong,_1840,_NGA_139101.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Vest of August the Strong — Adolph Menzel. 1840.
Medium: graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 13.3 x 20.7 cm (5 1/4 x 8 1/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.18. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Patrons' Permanent 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.