Head of a Turbaned Man
1768
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince
Artist, French, 1734 - 1781
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching and aquatint on laid paper
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Credit Line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter
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Dimensions
plate: 15.2 × 11.1 cm (6 × 4 3/8 in.)
sheet: 15.5 × 11.3 cm (6 1/8 × 4 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2019.23.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hedou 1879, no. 103, State ii/iii
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Series Title
1er Suite de Coeffures dessinées d'après nature (First Suite of Headdresses Drawn from Nature) [title page]
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2018 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2021
Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.
Bibliography
1879
Hedou, Jules. Jean Le Prince et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Baur Libraire, 1879: no. 103, ii/iii
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 52, fig. 3.
Inscriptions
lower center in plate: Ire. SUITTE de coeffures / dessinés d'après nature; lower left in image: LE Prince / 1768; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: cf 16176