Study of an Old Woman from Magdeburg

1891

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite on paper
Dimensions: 8 11/16 x 5 1/4 in. (22 x 13.3 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.870
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Adolph Menzel. Study of an Old Woman from Magdeburg. Adolph Menzel; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study of an Old Woman from Magdeburg — Adolph Menzel. 1891.

Medium: Graphite on paper. Dimensions: 8 11/16 x 5 1/4 in. (22 x 13.3 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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