Tannhäuser

Aubrey Beardsley

Artist, British, 1872 - 1898

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash heightened with white

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.5 x 18.7 cm (7 5/16 x 7 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1943.3.1456

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zatlin 2016, no. 195


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Presented by the artist to Dr. Rowland Thurnam [1868 - 1941]; (Maggs Brothers, London). (Charles J. Sawyer, London, 1929); (Richard Sessler, Philadelphia); purchased by Lessing J. Rosenwald [1891-1979], Jenkintown, PA, 1930; gift to NGA, 1943.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • Aubrey Beardsley, Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Gallery of Modern Art and the Huntington Hartford Museum, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1966-68, no. 131.

1998

  • Aubrey Beardsley: A Centenary Tribute, Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan; and Gunma Museum of Fine Arts, Gunma, Japan, 1998, no. 20, repro.

2006

  • The Artist's Vision: Romantic Traditions in Great Britain, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007

2020

  • Aubrey Beardsley, Tate Britain, London; and Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 2020-2021, no. 4, repro.

Bibliography

1959

  • Vallance, 27?.

2016

  • Zatlin, Linda Gertner. Aubrey Beardsley: A Catalogue Raisonne. Vol. I. New Haven and London, 2016: no. 195.

Inscriptions

lower right, in image, in black ink: TANNHAUSER; verso, at lower right, in graphite: RS 345

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64536932


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