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In a Railway Carriage (After a Night's Journey), 1851. Gouache, with touches of pastel and oil paint, on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper.
Gouache, with touches of pastel and oil paint, on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper · 27.3 × 33 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- In a Railway Carriage (After a Night's Journey)
- Artist
- Adolph Menzel German, 1815–1905
- Date
- 1851
- Medium
- Gouache, with touches of pastel and oil paint, on cream wove paper, laid down on Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 27.3 × 33 cm (10 3/4 × 13 in.)
- Credit line
- Regenstein Acquisition Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1815–1905
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.