Collection

Portrait of a Peasant Woman (Girl with Nose) (Bildnis einer Bäuerin [Mädchen mit Nase])

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Brooklyn Museum photograph

Object Label

Paula Modersohn-Becker was an innovative painter and self-portraitist of the Worpswede artist colony in northern Germany. As her unsentimental, distilled style evolved, her husband, a more traditional artist, lamented her tendency to draw figures with “hands like spoons” and “noses like cobs.” Sitting somewhere between portraiture and caricature, this etching is an introspective work that subverts the fin de siècle trope of depicting women as idealized embodiments of nature.

Caption

Paula Modersohn-Becker (German, 1876–1907). Portrait of a Peasant Woman (Girl with Nose) (Bildnis einer Bäuerin [Mädchen mit Nase]), 1899–1902, printed 1922–1923 in Worpswede. Etching and aquatint on wove paper, image: 3 15/16 × 5 1/2 in. (10 × 14 cm) sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17.6 × 22.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frederick Loeser Fund, 51.150.1. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Gallery

Not on view

Title

Portrait of a Peasant Woman (Girl with Nose) (Bildnis einer Bäuerin [Mädchen mit Nase])

Date

1899–1902, printed 1922–1923 in Worpswede

Geography

Place made: Germany

Medium

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Classification

Print

Dimensions

image: 3 15/16 × 5 1/2 in. (10 × 14 cm) sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 7/8 in. (17.6 × 22.5 cm)

Signatures

Signed, "Paula Modersohn- Becker" signed by otto Modersohn and the printer

Inscriptions

Bottom left in graphite: "No. 3/f/ Paula Modersohn-Becker. O. Modersohn"; bottom right in graphite (faint): "c. 593."

Markings

Verso stamped lower left in black: "F/R" (F.G. Rice, Lugt 1042a); verso stamped: "Brooklyn Museum/Brooklyn, N.Y." (Lugt 307a)

Credit Line

Frederick Loeser Fund

Accession Number

51.150.1

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Artists and makers

Paula Modersohn-Becker

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