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Source Description
The fairy tale <em>Cinderella </em>tells of a neglected servant girl who, aided by a fairy godmother, attends a ball and falls in love with a prince. The prince finds his true love by fitting a glass slipper on her foot. Eugen Neureuther made this elaborate etching depicting several scenes from the story during a revival of interest in folk tales in Germany in the early 19th century.
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Document identity
localId
320656
label
Cinderella
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obj
dtoType
print
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1
Source metadata
id
320656
contentType
print
title
Cinderella
description
The fairy tale <em>Cinderella </em>tells of a neglected servant girl who, aided by a fairy godmother, attends a ball and falls in love with a prince. The prince finds his true love by fitting a glass slipper on her foot. Eugen Neureuther made this elaborate etching depicting several scenes from the story during a revival of interest in folk tales in Germany in the early 19th century.
date
1847
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79874533
creators
25867
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Print
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Platemark: 72 x 54 cm (28 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.); Sheet: 80 x 63 cm (31 1/2 x 24 13/16 in.)
cul
Germany, 19th century
accession
2018.302
Source extras
tec
etching on steel on wove paper
tombstone
Cinderella, 1847. Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (German, 1806–1862), printed by Wendelin Wick (German, active 1842–1853). Etching on steel on wove paper; platemark: 72 x 54 cm (28 3/8 x 21 1/4 in.); sheet: 80 x 63 cm (31 1/2 x 24 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Stephen Dull, 2018.302
collection
PR - Etching
stateOfTheWork
First state of two
inscriptions
inscription
In plate: “Rheinischer Kunstverein der Verein in Darmstadt seinen Mitgliedern im Jahre 1847”
inscription
below image; “E. Neureuther inv. et exc. 1847”
inscription
below image right; “gedrukt bei Wick im München” below legend
inscription
Inscribed in graphite, verso: “K3217 / RNPL/VQRT”
didYouKnow
The fairy tale <em>Cinderella </em>was a German folk tale that became popular in the 19th century in Germany, well before Walt Disney!
citations
citation
Boetticher, Friedrich von. <em>Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. </em>Dresden: Boetticher, 1891-1901
page_number
no. 44
citation
Nagler, G.K. <em>Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.</em> 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischman, 1835
page_number
no. 21
citation
Schuberth, Max. “Eugen Napoleon Neureuthers Leben und graphisches Werk: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der romantischen Bildkunst.” PhD diss., Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, 1926
page_number
no. II.59
citation
Philadelphia Museum of Art, John W. Ittmann, Cordula Grewe, Warren Breckman, Mitchell Benjamin Frank, Catriona MacLeod, and F. Carlo Schmid. The Enchanted World of German Romantic Prints, 1770-1850. 2017.
page_number
no. 200, p. 356-57, fig. 321
citation
Peters, Emily and Salsbury, Britany. “Acquisitions 2018: Prints and Drawings.” <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine </em>vol. 59, no. 2 (March/April 2019): 20-23.
page_number
Reproduced: P. 23; Mentioned: P. 22, 23.
creditline
Gift of Stephen Dull
updatedAt
2026-05-29 08:56:11.244000
sourceId
320656
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Prints
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PR - Etching
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etching on steel on wove paper
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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