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Preparatory work

Baron Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein 1903

Head and shoulders, slightly to the right, full-face, wearing topcoat with a wide lapel over a uniform, two orders around his neck and a sash

Pencil heightened with white on buff paper, 51 x 33.5 cm (20 x 13 ¼ in.)

Inscribed lower right:  L.F.E. / 1903  [pencil]

Inscribed verso upper left: 74 [ink], 500  [blue biro]; a torn label in German, centre right and an inscription centre left:  Exc. Mumm v. Sch. [pencil]

Sitters’ Book I, f. 63: Freiherr Mumm von Schwarzenstein / 6.III 1903

Studio Inventory, p. 148 (74): Baron Mumm

Private Collection

This is a preparatory drawing for the finished portrait [110923] that is untraced.

For biographical notes on the sitter, see [110923].

LITERATURE:

•Schleinitz, Otto (von), Künstler Monographien, n° 106, Ph. A. von László, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Velhagen & Klasing), 1913, p. 28

CWS 2008