ID: 700008162 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008162	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Two Female Figures in Half-length and a Study of a Hand (drawing (visual work); Friedrich Preller (German painter and printmaker, 1804 - 187...; 1861; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2009.22)

Note: The proposed drawing provides a moving insight into the drawing practice of the important German nineteenth-century artist Friedrich Preller. As his monogram testifies, Preller completed this drawing in Rome at the age of fifty-seven. The drawing shows a female figure in two different postures, seen in both cases in profile from her right-hand side. In between these passages of the sheet, the artist has developed his study of the model's right hand in greater detail. The progression from left to right of a description of the model in one posture to an anatomical detail to a description of the model in a new posture reveals the kind of drawing exercise that Preller depended on for the maintainence of his art. The drawing demonstrates Preller's light and fine handling of chalk and his propensity for clear and reinforced contour lines. As a friend and contemporary of Joseph Anton Koch, Preller represents an important figure in the development of German Romanticism.

Titles:

Two Female Figures in Half-length and a Study of a Hand (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Studies of a female figure in half-length, and studies of a hand (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

drawing (visual work) [300033973] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

drawings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1861

Creator Display:

Friedrich Preller (German painter and printmaker, 1804 - 1878) [preferred,JPGM]

painter Preller, Friedrich (German painter and printmaker, 1804-1878) [500023376]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2009.22

Credit Line: Gift of Thomas and Gianna Le Claire

Other: Creation: Italia [1000080] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Graphite

	graphite (mineral) [300011098]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, mineral)

Dimensions: 19.1 x 28.3 cm (7 1/2 x 11 1/8 in.)

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

human figures (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	women (female humans) [300025943]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by gender or sex>) (AAT)

	hand (animal component) [300310193]
	.....(Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, biological components, animal components) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Two Female Figures in Half-length and a Study of a Hand	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
Studies of a female figure in half-length, and studies of a hand	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)