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[Pencil sketch by Emanuel Leutze: (self-portrait, painting large mural)] – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Pencil sketch by Emanuel Leutze: (self-portrait, painting large mural)] — historic drawing
[Pencil sketch by Emanuel Leutze: (self-portrait, painting large mural)]. Historic drawing from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Pencil sketch by Emanuel Leutze: (self-portrait, painting large mural)], preserved in this historic drawing. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[Pencil sketch by Emanuel Leutze: (self-portrait, painting large mural)]

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Emanuel Leutze drew himself at work on a large mural, a detail that sets this graphite sketch apart from portraits of the painter posed at rest. Leutze, a German-born artist who spent much of his career in Düsseldorf before settling in the United States, was best known for monumental history paintings that were meant to be seen in public spaces. The drawing dates from roughly 1840 to 1860, a period when American and European painters often produced such large-scale works for halls, churches and civic buildings. Its informal pencil handling offers a glimpse of the studio process behind those finished canvases.

Medium1 drawing : graphite.
Notes[between 1840 and 1860]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan903 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-123234

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