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The Lovers, 1913. Graphite.
Graphite · Sheet: 14 5/8 × 22 1/4 in. (37.1 × 56.5 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Lovers
- Artist
- Gustav Klimt (Austrian, Baumgarten 1862–1918 Vienna)
- Date
- 1913
- Medium
- Graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 14 5/8 × 22 1/4 in. (37.1 × 56.5 cm) Frame: 23 × 29 × 1 1/2 in. (58.4 × 73.7 × 3.8 cm)
- Credit line
- Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1862–1918
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.