Jean Jacques Rousseau

1766

David Martin after Allan Ramsay

Associated Names
David Martin

Artist, British, 1710 - 1776

Allan Ramsay

Artist After, Scottish, 1713 - 1784

The image shows a person from the waist up in a seated position, facing slightly to the side with a serious expression. They wear a high dark hat and a robe with fur trim draped over their shoulders and arms. Their hands are placed one over the other and the background is a plain dark surface. The image is in warm sepia tones.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper [proof]

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 39.1 x 27.9 cm (15 3/8 x 11 in.)
    sheet: 50.5 x 35.2 cm (19 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.118.28

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Chaloner Smith 1884, no. 7, State i/ii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Christopher Lennox-Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1884

  • Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.

Inscriptions

lower left in plate: A. Ramsay Pinxt.; lower right in plate: D. Martin Fecit / 1766; by later hand, lower center in brown ink: Jean Jacques Rousseau / Vitam impendere vero

Wikidata ID

Q76338104

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