Head of a Man Wearing a Plumed Turban

1772

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red and black

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    Overall (5th framing line): 23.4 x 16.7 cm (9 3/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
    image: 18.6 x 13.3 cm (7 5/16 x 5 1/4 in.)

  • Accession

    1986.66.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 374

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marius Paulme (Lugt 1910)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 23, as Head of a Man Wearing a Plumed Turban by Atelier of Gilles Demarteau the Elder after Carle Vanloo.

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 374.

1986

  • Thom. Agnew & Sons, London: 5/28/86-7/25/86, no.42.

2003

  • Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 23.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Vanloo fecit; lower right in plate: Demarteau direx; across bottom in plate: A Paris ches Demarteau Graveur du Roi, rue de laPolterie a la Cloche. No. 374

Wikidata ID

Q74875228

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