Tête de Joseph (Head of Joseph), 1773

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner printed from two plates in black and white on blue laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 51.2 × 39.5 cm (20 3/16 × 15 9/16 in.)

sheet: 58.8 × 44.4 cm (23 1/8 × 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Purchase as the Gift of Ivan and Winifred Phillips in Honor of Margaret Morgan Grasselli

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 25, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2017.6.1

Artists / Makers

Louis-Marin Bonnet (artist) French, 1736 - 1793

Jean-Baptiste Deshays (artist after) French, 1729 - 1765

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Deshayes delin.; lower right in plate: Bonnet Sculp.; lower center in plate: TÊTE DE JOSEPH / Tiré du Cabinet de Monsieur S. D. / AParis chés Bonnet rue St. Jacques.

Provenance

(Susan Schulman, New York); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Schulman, Susan

Bibliography

1935: Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935: no. 25,i i/ii