Name: Antique Master Print-HEAD-STUDY-WOMAN-CRAYON-MANNER-Lingee-Greuze-c.1780
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Antique Master Print-HEAD-STUDY-WOMAN-CRAYON-MANNER-Lingee-Greuze-c.1780

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‘DESSINE PAR J.B. GREUZE PEINTRE DU ROI. / GRAVE PAR T.F. HY. FME. LINGEE / A PARIS, CHEZ LINGEE, GRAVEUR, RUE DES MA?ONS, PRES L?HOTEL DES QUATRE NATIONS. ET CHEZ CHEREAU, RUE DES MATHURINS, AU COIN DE CELLE DE SORBONNE. / NO. 139.’

– Expressive study of a pensive young woman with head resting on folded arms. Executed in red chalk style with delicate tonal modeling and contour shading. After a design by Jean-Baptiste Greuze.

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Description

Medium: Crayon manner engraving (maniere de crayon), printed in sanguine on hand laid (verge) paper. Watermark: Lettering: J. DUPUY MOYEN …

Sheet size: 37.8 x 51.9 cm (14.88 x 20.43 inch). Image size: 34.9 x 39.7 cm. (13.74 x 15.63 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Light creasing, foxing and soiling. Some tears in bottom papaer edge, small pinhole. Remains of paper on rear from attachment. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

GREUZE, MASQUELIER, RED CHALK, CRAYON MANNER, FRENCH ACADEMIC DRAWING, SENTIMENTAL EXPRESSION, 18TH-CENTURY PRINT | PCO-B3-25

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Published in Paris by Lingee and Chereau, ca. 1780-1790.

Biography engraver: Therese Eleonore Lingee (nee Therese-Eleonore Hemery; c.1750-1818) was a French engraver, known for her crayon manner stipple engravings. She engraved religious subjects, genre scenes and portraits. She was from a French family of engravers.

Biography artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805) was a French painter noted for his sentimental genre scenes and expressive head studies, which became especially popular in reproductive prints.