A Seated Elderly Man Asleep
c. 1758
Artist, French, 1717 - 1769
Artwork overview
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Medium
chalk manner, softground etching (and burnishing?) over etched texture (and lavis?)
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Credit Line
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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