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Studies of Character Heads

1773

Louis Germain

Associated Names

Louis Germain

Artist, French, 1733 - 1791 or after

Medium

etching on laid paper
Credit Line

Katharine Shepard Fund
Dimensions

plate: 12 × 15.1 cm (4 3/4 × 5 15/16 in.)
sheet: 16.3 × 21 cm (6 7/16 × 8 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2020.124.2

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Galerie Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, 28 November 2018, no. 5297); Private collection, German; (Eric Gillis, Brussels); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

recto: in plate, in image, at lower right: Desine & / grave pare / Germain / a neuilly 1773; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none