Head of a Man, Slightly Turned
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
plate: 14.4 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.)
sheet: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.) -
Accession
2019.23.6
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hedou 1879, no. 108, State undesc. i/ii
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. 108, undesc. i/ii
Inscriptions
upper right in plate: 6