Head of a Young Woman Wearing a Cap

before 1764

Louis-Marin Bonnet

Artist, French, 1736 - 1793

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chalk manner printed in red ink

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Ivan E. and Winifred Phillips

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1997.17.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Herold 1935, no. 40, State A only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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.

Watermarks

iron cross in chainlink circle

Wikidata ID

Q75403635

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