Cinderella (1847): Art, History and Details

Cinderella (1847) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (German, 1806–1862); Wendelin Wick (German, active 1842–1853).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The fairy tale Cinderella 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.

Object facts

• Title: Cinderella
• Date: 1847
• Creator attribution: Eugen Napoleon Neureuther (German, 1806–1862); Wendelin Wick (German, active 1842–1853)
• Culture: Germany, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: etching on steel on wove paper
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: PR - Etching
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2018.302

A detail from the museum

The fairy tale Cinderella was a German folk tale that became popular in the 19th century in Germany, well before Walt Disney!

Collection credit

Gift of Stephen Dull

Further reading listed by the museum

• Boetticher, Friedrich von. Malerwerke des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts: Beitrag zur Kunstgeschichte. Dresden: Boetticher, 1891-1901
• Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischman, 1835
• Schuberth, Max. “Eugen Napoleon Neureuthers Leben und graphisches Werk: Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte der romantischen Bildkunst.” PhD diss., Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität, Munich, 1926

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