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Seated Old Woman, 1899. Etching, aquatint, and soft ground in dark brown on cream wove paper.
Etching, aquatint, and soft ground in dark brown on cream wove paper · Plate: 18.6 × 14.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago
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- Museum title
- Seated Old Woman
- Artist
- Paula Modersohn-Becker German, 1876-1907
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Etching, aquatint, and soft ground in dark brown on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 18.6 × 14.5 cm (7 3/8 × 5 3/4 in.); Sheet: 37.9 × 29.5 cm (14 15/16 × 11 5/8 in.)
- Credit line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist’s life 1876–1907
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.