Art, literature & history
The Couple in the Crowd
1917
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 26.6 x 34.6 cm (10 1/2 x 13 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1950.17.300
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ernst Barlach. The Couple in the Crowd. Ernst Barlach; 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:Ernst_Barlach,_The_Couple_in_the_Crowd,_1917,_NGA_39533.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 Couple in the Crowd — Ernst Barlach. 1917.
Medium: charcoal on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 26.6 x 34.6 cm (10 1/2 x 13 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1950.17.300. Rosenwald Collection.
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.