Head of a Man

Gilles Demarteau the Elder

Artist, French, 1722 - 1776

Gilles Demarteau, the Elder after Edme Bouchardon

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Jacqueline Phillips

  • Dimensions

    plate: 44.9 x 30.4 cm (17 11/16 x 11 15/16 in.)
    sheet: 51.3 x 34.1 cm (20 3/16 x 13 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1989.67.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Leymarie 1896, no. 305

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1896

  • Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 305.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: Dessine par Bouchardon; lower center in plate: Tire du Cabinet de Monsieur Mariette Honoraire amateur de l'Academie Rle. de Peinture et Sculpture / A Paris ch s Demarteau Graveur et Pensionnaire du Roi rue de la Pelterie a la Cloche; lRp//: Demarteau Lne. scul p. / No. 305; bR //by later hand in graphite: 100 [illegible]

Wikidata ID

Q74884173

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