A Seated Elderly Man Asleep

c. 1758

Jean-Charles François

Artist, French, 1717 - 1769

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner, softground etching (and burnishing?) over etched texture (and lavis?)

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 38.9 x 28 cm (15 5/16 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 39.5 x 28 cm (15 9/16 x 11 in.)

  • Accession

    2012.15.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis & Daughter, San Rafael, CA); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: par NV jaurant peintre du Cabinet du Roi; lower right in plate: JG fecit et exe C. P. R.; lower right in graphite: Francois; verso: rough sketch in graphite of a man's head

Wikidata ID

Q76560591

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