Head of a Woman
1782-1785
Artist, German, 1739 - 1808
Artist After, Bolognese, 1591 - 1666
Johann Gottlieb Prestel after Guercino
Attributed to
Artwork overview
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Medium
etching
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
mount: 48.6 × 33.3 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
sheet (trimmed within platemark): 23.2 × 17.3 cm (9 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1948.11.283
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Series Title
Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 25]
Associated Artworks
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Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets)
Maria Catharina Prestel, Regina Schönecker, Johann Georg Sturm, Heinrich Sebastian Hüsgen, Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Three Lansquenets
Maria Catharina Prestel
1780
Saint Barbara
Johann Gottlieb Prestel
1782
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
in plate, in image, lower right: Prestel. sc.; in plate, below image, at right: No 25.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Guercino. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur de Praun à Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: J.T. Prestel. sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
Wikidata ID
Q65079608