Self-Portrait Drawing

1675

Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann

Associated Names
Michael Lukas Leopold Willmann

Artist, German, 1630 - 1706

The image depicts a seated person leaning slightly forward. They have long, wavy hair, a prominent nose, and discernible facial features. The person is wearing a long-sleeved garment, with slightly crumpled sleeves. They are holding a quill pen or similar writing instrument and focused on a surface. The background has a linear, textured pattern, and there is elaborate script or decoration at the bottom of the image.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10.7 x 8.2 cm (4 3/16 x 3 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 11.3 x 8.7 cm (4 7/16 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1999.98.15

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Le Blanc, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Ernst Ruge, Frankfurt (Oder), 1878 - 1953 (Lugt 2158a). Wilhelm Soldan, Berlin, after 1950 (Lugt undescribed). (C. G. Boerner Inc., New York); purchased 1999 by NGA with funds contributed by The Ahmanson Foundation.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1854

  • Le Blanc, Charles. _Manuel de l'amateur d'estampes, contenant le dictionnaire des graveurs de toutes les nations, dans lequel sont decrites les estampes rares, precieuses et interessantes avec l'indication de leurs differents etats et des prix auxquels

Inscriptions

lower center in plate, in mirror image: Michael Willman fec. / Ao. 1675; by later hand, center verso in graphite: 1675; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: Willmann; by later hands, across bottom verso in graphite: Nagler N. Kloss 4; 161

Wikidata ID

Q75425080

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