Theodor von Holst

Gretchen in prayer before the Mater Dolorosa (recto). Studies of a Gretchen, a bearded male head, and other figures (verso)

1828–31

Dating

Date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Black and red chalk

Dimensions

Sheet: 10 1/4 × 12 7/8 in. (26 × 32.7 cm) Mount: 13 1/2 × 16 5/16 in. (34.3 × 41.5 cm)

Collection no.

2017.259.9a, b

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Theodor von Holst. Gretchen in prayer before the Mater Dolorosa (recto). Studies of a Gretchen, a bearded male head, and other figures (verso). Theodor von Holst; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Allen Staley, 2017. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.