Art, literature & history
The Artist's Sister Emilie
1851
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 31 x 24 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.111.19
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Adolph Menzel. The Artist's Sister Emilie. Adolph von 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_Artist%27s_Sister_Emilie,_1851,_NGA_139107.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 Artist's Sister Emilie — Adolph Menzel. 1851.
Medium: pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 31 x 24 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.111.19. Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann.
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.