A Woman Playing the Guitar

1788/1789

Jean-François Janinet

Artist, French, 1752 - 1814

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and wash manner, printed in blue, red, yellow, and black inks

  • Credit Line

    Widener Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.4 x 27.8 cm (13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
    sheet (trimmed at or within the platemark): 48.5 x 36.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1942.9.2369

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 56, State only

Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1987

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 74, as A Woman Playing the Guitar by Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince.

Bibliography

1880

  • Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 74.

Wikidata ID

Q64959201

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