Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Cap, before 1764

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner printed in red ink

Dimensions

plate: 46.5 x 34.6 cm (18 5/16 x 13 5/8 in.)
overall (outside framing line): 42.7 x 31.9 cm (16 13/16 x 12 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

Herold 1935, no. 40, State A only

Accession Number

1997.17.1

Artists / Makers

Louis-Marin Bonnet (artist) French, 1736 - 1793

Jean-Baptiste Greuze (artist after) French, 1725 - 1805

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right plate: Louis Bonnet; lower left plate: Greuze feci:; lower left plate: A Paris ches la Ve. de F. Chereau rue S. Jacques aux 2 Piliers d'Or.; upper left plate: No. 51.

Provenance

(R.G. Michel, Paris); purchased, with funds from Ivan Phillips, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Galerie R.G. Michel

Exhibition History

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 7, as Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Cap by Louis-Marin Bonnet after Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

Bibliography

1935: Herold, Jacques. Louis-Marin Bonnet (1735-1793): Catalogue de l'oeuvre grave. Paris: La Societe pour l'etude de la gravure Francaise, 1935.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 7.