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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Adrien Perlet, Actor

1838

Henri Grevedon

Associated Names

Henri Grevedon

Artist, French, 1776 - 1860

The image shows a portrait of a person from the chest up, facing slightly to the left with the head turned towards the viewer. The person has wavy or curly hair, defined facial features, and is dressed in a coat with large lapels and a scarf or cravat around the neck. The background is plain.

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Artwork overview

Medium

graphite heightened with white gouache on buff wove paper
Credit Line

Gift in memory of Adolph and Jeanne Zelnick
Dimensions

sheet: 20.2 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2019.184.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Stephen and Claudine Ostrow, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Dr. and Mrs. Stephen Ostrow

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower right in graphite: [not deciphered] Perlet, Adrien

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