Head of a Woman, Full Face, 1768

Not on View

1er Suite de Coeffures dessinées d'après nature (First Suite of Headdresses Drawn from Nature) [plate 4]

etching and aquatint on laid paper

image: 10.2 × 8.7 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.)

sheet: 14.2 × 11.4 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/2 in.), trimmed within platemark

Hedou 1879, no. 106

2019.23.4

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

upper right in plate: 4; lower left in image: Le Prince / 1768

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

Rumbler, Helmut H., Mr.

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

1879: Hedou, Jules. Jean Le Prince et son oeuvre. Paris: J. Baur Libraire, 1879: no. 106

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 52, fig. 5.