Woman's Head on a Pedestal

Jean Mignon

Associated Names
Jean Mignon

Artist, French, active 1543 - active c. 1545

The image shows an abstract figure with a long, spiraled column base topped by a bust resembling a human face. The figure is crowned with leaf-like patterns, and on either side of the column, there are symmetrical arrangements of fruit and foliage hanging from delicate strings. Below these, to the left and right, there are two abstract winged insects.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 26.8 × 18 cm (10 9/16 × 7 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1964.8.858

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Zerner 1969, no. 14, State i/ii

  • Series Title

    Series of Twenty Terminals [Zerner 1969 9-28]

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1969

  • Zerner, Henri. Ecole de Fontainebleau, gravures.Paris: Arts et Metiers Graphiques, 1969. English ed. The School of Fontainebleau, etchings and engravings. London: Thames and Hudson, 1969.

Wikidata ID

Q65510078

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