Le Perruquier fatigué (The Tired Wigmaker), 1775

Not on View

series Title

Divers Portraits (Various Portraits)

Medium

etching and aquatint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 24 × 16.5 cm (9 7/16 × 6 1/2 in.)

sheet: 38.6 × 26.2 cm (15 3/16 × 10 5/16 in.)

Credit Line

New Century Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Newcome Schleier-Grasso 2003, no. 112a, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2013.173.12

Artists / Makers

Giovanni David (artist) Italian, 1743 - 1790

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: David, Gen. Inv: fecit; lower center in plate: le Perruquier fatigué / Il change tous les jours d'esprit comme de mode. Boil. Sat. 8.

Marks and Labels

none

Provenance

(Enrico Cortona, Milan); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Cortona, Enrico

Exhibition History

2021: Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022.

Bibliography

2003: Grasso, Giovanni, and Mary Newcome Schleier. Giovanni David, Pittore e incisore della famiglia Durazzo. Turin, 2003: no. 112a (ii/ii).

2021: Hoisington, Rena. Aquatint: From Its Origins to Goya. Washington, 2021: 115, fig. 5.