Head of a Woman, Full Face
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
image: 10.2 × 8.7 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.)
sheet: 14.2 × 11.4 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/2 in.), trimmed within platemark -
Accession
2019.23.4
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hedou 1879, no. 106
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: no. 106
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 52, fig. 5.
Inscriptions
upper right in plate: 4; lower left in image: Le Prince / 1768