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Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince

A Woman Playing the Guitar, 1788/1789

Not on View

Medium

etching and wash manner, printed in blue, red, yellow, and black inks

Dimensions

image: 35.4 x 27.8 cm (13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)

sheet (trimmed at or within the platemark): 48.5 x 36.5 cm (19 1/8 x 14 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Widener Collection

Catalogue Raisonné

Portalis/Beraldi 1880, no. 56, State only

Accession Number

1942.9.2369

Artists / Makers

Jean-François Janinet (artist) French, 1752 - 1814

Nicolas Lavreince (artist after) Swedish, 1737 - 1807

Image Use

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Exhibition History

1987: Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., November 1987.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004, no. 74, as A Woman Playing the Guitar by Jean-François Janinet after Nicolas Lavreince.

Bibliography

1880: Portalis, baron Roger and Henri Beraldi. Les graveurs du dix-huitieme siecle. 2 parts, 3 vols. each part. Paris, 1880.

2003: Colorful Impressions: The Printmaking Revolution in Eighteenth-Century France. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2003-2004: no. 74.

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