Head of a Turbaned Man without a Moustache
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
image: 10.5 × 9 cm (4 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.)
sheet: 14.9 × 10.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.), cut within platemark -
Accession Number
2019.23.3
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Catalogue Raisonné
Hedou 1879, no. 105
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Series Title
1er Suite de Coeffures dessinées d'après nature (First Suite of Headdresses Drawn from Nature) [plate 3]
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. 105
2021
Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 52, fig. 4.
Inscriptions
upper right in plate: 3; lower right in image: Le Prince / 1768