Head of a Woman Looking Up, 1767

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner printed in black and orange-red

Dimensions

Overall (3rd framing line): 20.9 x 16 cm (8 1/4 x 6 5/16 in.)
image: 19.5 x 14.9 cm (7 11/16 x 5 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Philip and Judith Benedict

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 149

Accession Number

1997.88.7

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: f. Boucher f.; lower right in plate: Demarteau [?] S; across bottom in plate: Du Cabinet de Madame d'Azaincourt. A Paris chés Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche No. 149; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: 9945

Provenance

(Thomas Agnew & Sons Ltd, London); Dr. Ruth B. Benedict (1913-1993), Washington, DC; by descent to Philip and Judith Benedict; gift to NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Benedict, Ruth B., Dr.

Exhibition History

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, no. 44.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 13, as Head of a Woman Looking Up by Gilles Demarteau the Elder after François Boucher.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 149.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978: no. 720.

1994: A Discerning Eye: Prints and Drawings Given by Ruth B. Benedict. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: no. 44.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 13.