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Soldier and Officer Reading
Wilhelm Camphausen1858
The Walters Art Museum
Baltimore, United States
On the basis of the monogram and its military subject matter this drawing has been attributed to Wilhelm Camphausen, a popular academic painter of military and genre scenes, who was also a caricaturist and illustrator. He was a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy and a member of the academies in Berlin and Vienna.
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- Title: Soldier and Officer Reading
- Creator: Attributed to Wilhelm Camphausen (German, 1818 - 1885)
- Date Created: 1858
- External Link: For more information about this and thousands of other works of art in the Walters Art Museum collection, please visit art.thewalters.org
- Roles: Artist: Attributed to Wilhelm Camphausen (German, 1818 - 1885)
- Provenance: William T. Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
- Object Type: drawings
- Medium: pencil on paper
- Inscriptions: [Signature] Lower right, in monogram: CW 58
- Dimensions: H: 8 1/4 x W: 5 5/8 in. (21 x 14.3 cm)
- Credit Line: Acquired by William T. Walters
- Classification: Painting & Drawing
- Accession Number: 37.125
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