Self-Portrait, Drawing

1752

Georg Friedrich Schmidt

Artist, German, 1712 - 1775

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and engraving on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.9 x 17 cm (8 1/4 x 6 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.132.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Reverend G. L. Blake (Lugt 1138)

Associated Names

Bibliography

1815

  • Jacoby 1815, 134.

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, no. 111, only.

1880

  • Portalis/Beraldi 1880, 62.

Inscriptions

in reverse, upper left in plate: g f Schmidt / se ipse fecit / aqua forti / 1752; lower left in plate: g f Schmidt se ipse fec; lower left in plate: L/; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: 82851 ; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: J134; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: undeciphered; on mount, lower center verso in graphite: 2/470

Wikidata ID

Q74894027

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