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Woman Weeping at the Feet of Another
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Emanuel Leutze was born in the town of Schwäbisch Gmünd in the state of Württemberg in southern Germany. His family immigrated to the United States while he was a child, living first in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, before settling in Fredericksburg, Virginia. In 1840, sales of his early work enabled Leutze to study at Düsseldorf and then Munich. Leutze returned to America in 1851 on the occasion of the exhibition of what was to be his most popular work, Washington Crossing the Delaware (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). It is not known if this drawing of two women in classical dress relates to a specific painting by Leutze, but he used the pose, which derives from antique statuary, in several other compositions.
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Provenance
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William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Exhibitions
| 2014 | American Artists Abroad: Works from the Permanent Collection . The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
| 2010-2011 | German Drawings from the Walters Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. |
Measurements
H: 9 3/4 × W: 8 1/16 in. (24.8 × 20.4 cm); Mat H: 19 1/4 × W: 14 1/4 in. (48.9 × 36.2 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by William T. Walters
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
37.1266