# The Artist's Sister Emilie

- By: Adolph Menzel (German, 1815 - 1905)
- Date: 1851
- Medium: pastel and black chalk on brown wove paper
- Classification: Drawing
- Dimensions: sheet: 31 x 24 cm (12 3/16 x 9 7/16 in.)
- Culture: German
- Credit line: Wolfgang Ratjen Collection, Purchased as the Gift of Ladislaus and Beatrix von Hoffmann
- Museum: [National Gallery of Art](https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.139107.html)
- Rights: [Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://api.nga.gov/iiif/575b9a6c-7c7b-42a8-b46d-481440c0a969/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
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