Art, literature & historyDer Optiker
1957
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on wove cream paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 31.8 × 26.5 cm (12 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 45.6 × 37.7 cm (17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.362
- Attribution
- By the artist
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Der Optiker — Friedrich Meckseper. 1957.
Medium: etching on wove cream paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 31.8 × 26.5 cm (12 1/2 × 10 7/16 in.) sheet: 45.6 × 37.7 cm (17 15/16 × 14 13/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.362. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.