Early Morning

c. 1774

Sigmund Freudenberger

Artist, Swiss, 1745 - 1801

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and black ink with gray wash and graphite with touches of white gouache on laid paper, with border line in black ink drawn by the artist

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (sheet): 32.4 x 24.7 cm (12 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.)
    image (to border line): 28.8 x 21.8 cm (11 5/16 x 8 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1987.63.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Kate de Rothschild, London); acquired 1987 by the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2009

  • Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009, 232-233, 289-290, no. 101 (color).

Bibliography

1923

  • Clayton, Edward, ed. French Engravings of the Eighteenth Century in the Collection of Joseph Widener, Lynnewood Hall. 4 vols. London (privately printed), 1923, 2: 253, under no. 177.
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Wikidata ID

Q64631353

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