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Self-Portrait with an Injured Foot

1798

Joseph Fischer

Artist, Austrian, 1769 - 1822

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching and aquatint printed in brown
Credit Line

Ruth and Jacob Kainen Memorial Acquisition Fund
Dimensions

sheet: 13.2 × 22.8 cm (5 3/16 × 9 in.)
Accession

2020.109.1
Catalogue Raisonné

Nagler 1835-1852, p. 350

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Emanuel von Baeyer, London); purchased 2020 by NGA.

Associated Names

von Baeyer, Emanuel

Exhibition History

2021

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

Bibliography

1835

Nagler, G.K. Neues allgemeines Kunstler-Lexikon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, Baumeister, Kupferstecher, Formschneider, Lithographen, Zeichner, Medailleure, Elfenbeinarbeiter, etc.. 22 vols. Munich: E.A. Fleischmann, 350.

2021

Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 241, fig. 4.

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