Head of a Faun

Not on View

Medium

chalk manner printed in black on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 28.9 x 22.2 cm (11 3/8 x 8 3/4 in.)

sheet: 40 x 28.8 cm (15 3/4 x 11 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ellwanger/Mescha Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Leymarie 1896, no. 4

Accession Number

2006.163.1

Artists / Makers

Gilles Demarteau the Elder (artist) French, 1722 - 1776

François Boucher (artist after) French, 1703 - 1770

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: Boucher del.; lower center in plate: Paris rue de la Pelterie a la cloche; lower right in plate: Demarteau oc CPR; by later hand, lower left in graphite: Gravé par Demarteau

Provenance

Mr. Gregory Mescha and Mr. Thompson Ellwanger, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Benedict, Philip and Judith
Ellwanger III and Mr. Gregory E. Mescha, A. Thompson, Mr.

Bibliography

1896: Leymarie, L. de. L'Oeuvre de Gilles Demarteau l'aine graveur du roi, catalogue descriptif. Paris: Georges Rapilly, 1896: no. 4.

1978: Jean-Richard, Pierrette. L'oeuvre grave de François Boucher, dans la Collection Edmond de Rothschild. Paris, 1978.