Head of a Woman, 1782-1785

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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]

Medium

etching

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.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1948.11.283

Artists / Makers

Johann Gottlieb Prestel (artist) German, 1739 - 1808

Guercino (artist after) Bolognese, 1591 - 1666

Image Use

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Inscription

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]

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Rosenwald, Lessing Julius