Tête de Joseph (Head of Joseph)
1773
Louis-Marin Bonnet, after Jean-Baptiste Deshays
Artist, French, 1736 - 1793
Artist After, French, 1729 - 1765
Artwork overview
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Medium
chalk manner printed from two plates in black and white on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
Purchase as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli
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Dimensions
plate: 51.2 × 39.5 cm (20 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)
sheet: 58.8 × 44.4 cm (23 1/8 × 17 1/2 in.) -
Accession Number
2017.6.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Herold 1935, no. 25, State ii/ii
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.
Associated Names
Bibliography
1935
Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935: no. 25,i i/ii
Inscriptions
lower left in plate: Deshayes delin.; lower right in plate: Bonnet Sculp.; lower center in plate: TÊTE DE JOSEPH / Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur S. D. / AParis chés Bonnet rue St. Jacques.
Wikidata ID
Q77258822