Head of a Drooping Old Woman
1768
Artist, French, 1734 - 1781
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter
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Dimensions
sheet: 14.9 × 11 cm (5 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.), trimmed within platemark
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Accession
2019.23.2
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hedou 1879, no. 104
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2018 by NGA
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1879
Hedou, Jules. Jean Le Prince et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Baur Libraire, 1879: 104
Inscriptions
upper right in plate: 2; lower left in image: Le Prince / 1768