Young Woman at a Window
Henry Wolf (American
Print · wood engraving
Young Woman at a Window, 1907. Henry Wolf (American, 1852–1916), after Johannes Vermeer (Dutch, 1632–1675). Wood engraving. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1924.989
Descent of Young Woman at a Window
Annotations from the network
Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.