Head of a Woman

1782-1785

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

Artist, German, 1739 - 1808

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    mount: 48.6 × 33.3 cm (19 1/8 × 13 1/8 in.)
    sheet (trimmed within platemark): 23.2 × 17.3 cm (9 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1948.11.283

Associated Artworks

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Three Lansquenets

Maria Catharina Prestel

1780

Saint Barbara

Johann Gottlieb Prestel

1782

Jupiter

Maria Catharina Prestel

1781

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, lower right: Prestel. sc.; in plate, below image, at right: No 25.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Guercino. / Du Cabinet de Monsieur de Praun à Nuremberg.; in plate, below image, at left: H.S.H. excud.; in plate, below image, at right: J.T. Prestel. sc. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]

Wikidata ID

Q65079608

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