Self-Portrait, 1778/1780

Not on View

Medium

roulette and engraving over mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

image: 43.3 × 37.7 cm (17 1/16 × 14 13/16 in.)
plate: 48 × 40 cm (18 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

sheet: 53.5 × 43.2 cm (21 1/16 × 17 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1953.6.78

Artists / Makers

Jean-Étienne Liotard (artist) Swiss, 1702 - 1789

Image Use

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Inscription

in plate, below image, at left: No. 1; in plate, below image, at center: I. E LIOTARD / Effet. Clair obscur sans sacrifice; in plate, below image, at right: Gravé par lui même

Exhibition History

1984: Regency to Empire: French Printmaking 1715-1814, The Baltimore Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1984-1985, no. 84, repro.

Bibliography

1984: Carlson, Victor I. and John W. Ittman. Regency to Empire : French Printmaking 1715-1814. Minneapolis, MN, 1984: no.84.