Head of a Turbaned Man, 1768

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series Title

1er Suite de Coeffures dessinées d'après nature (First Suite of Headdresses Drawn from Nature) [title page]

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

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.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter

Catalogue Raisonné

Hedou 1879, no. 103, State ii/iii

Accession Number

2019.23.1

Artists / Makers

Jean-Baptiste Le Prince (artist) French, 1734 - 1781

Image Use

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Inscription

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

Provenance

(Kunsthandlung Helmut H. Rumbler, Frankfurt am Main); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

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.