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The Artist's Brother-in-Law, Ludwig Hassenpflug, Preparing to Play the Piano
1826
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 25.2 x 21.2 cm (9 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2008.5.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Ludwig Emil Grimm. The Artist's Brother-in-Law, Ludwig Hassenpflug, Preparing to Play the Piano. Ludwig Emil Grimm; 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:Ludwig_Emil_Grimm,_The_Artist%27s_Brother-in-Law,_Ludwig_Hassenpflug,_Preparing_to_Play_the_Piano,_1826,_NGA_139890.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 Artist's Brother-in-Law, Ludwig Hassenpflug, Preparing to Play the Piano — Ludwig Emil Grimm. 1826.
Medium: pen and black ink over graphite on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 25.2 x 21.2 cm (9 15/16 x 8 3/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2008.5.1. William B. O'Neal Fund.
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.