A Seated Elderly Man Asleep, c. 1758

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner, softground etching (and burnishing?) over etched texture (and lavis?)

Dimensions

plate: 38.9 x 28 cm (15 5/16 x 11 in.)

sheet: 39.5 x 28 cm (15 9/16 x 11 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Accession Number

2012.15.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Charles François (artist) French, 1717 - 1769

Nicholas Henry Jeaurat de Bertry (artist after) French, after 1728 - 1796

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: par NV jaurant peintre du Cabinet du Roi; lower right in plate: JG fecit et exe C. P. R.; lower right in graphite: Francois; verso: rough sketch in graphite of a man's head

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis & Daughter, San Rafael, CA); purchased 2011 by NGA.

Associated Names

Jan Lewis Slavid