Details

Title

Homage (Huldigung), from the Glove (Ein Handschuh) series

Artist/Maker

Max Klinger (German, 1857–1920)

Date

1880–81, published 1924

Medium

Etching and aquatint on wove paper

Dimensions

12 1/2 x 19 in plate

Credit

Purchase with funds from the Lawrence and Alfred Fox Foundation for the Ralph K. Uhry Collection

Accession #

1977.7 G

On View

Currently not on view

The action here has moved from the sea to land. Following its triumphal progress across the sea, the glove now shows itself on a flat rock like a throne, accepting the homage being paid it by the waves, whose whitecaps and spume have been transformed into a sea of roses.

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