Melancholic woman seated amongst foliage (Trauerndes Mädchen im Kraut)

1830–35

Dating: Date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Etching
Dimensions: Image: 14 in. × 18 1/16 in. (35.5 × 45.9 cm) Plate: 15 5/8 × 19 7/16 in. (39.7 × 49.4 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 23 1/4 in. (49.5 × 59 cm)
Collection no.: 2022.333
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. Melancholic woman seated amongst foliage (Trauerndes Mädchen im Kraut). Carl Wilhelm Kolbe; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2022. 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

Melancholic woman seated amongst foliage (Trauerndes Mädchen im Kraut) — Carl Wilhelm Kolbe. 1830–35.

Medium: Etching. Dimensions: Image: 14 in. × 18 1/16 in. (35.5 × 45.9 cm) Plate: 15 5/8 × 19 7/16 in. (39.7 × 49.4 cm) Sheet: 19 1/2 × 23 1/4 in. (49.5 × 59 cm).

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

Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 2022.

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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