Art, literature & history
"Einer dirne schön gesicht muss allgemein sein wie's sonnenlicht" ("A Pretty Girl's Face is Like the Sunshine")
1923
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.) sheet: 35.8 x 29 cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1991.244.10
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
Lovis Corinth. "Einer dirne schön gesicht muss allgemein sein wie's sonnenlicht" ("A Pretty Girl's Face is Like the Sunshine"). National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
"Einer dirne schön gesicht muss allgemein sein wie's sonnenlicht" ("A Pretty Girl's Face is Like the Sunshine") — Lovis Corinth. 1923.
Medium: etching in black on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.) sheet: 35.8 x 29 cm (14 1/8 x 11 7/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1991.244.10. Gift of the Marcy Family in memory of Sigbert H. Marcy.
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.