About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Christian Josi
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Title
- Portrait of a Man in an Armchair, from Collection d'imitations de Dessins d'après les Principaux Maîtres Hollandais et Flamands
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Place
- Holland (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1826
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Medium
- Soft ground etching from two plates, etching, aquatint, and roulette, with brush and grey wash, on paper
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Inscriptions
- Verso: inscribed in graphite: "2nd proof with the hard etching ground lines and roulette and a light tint of aquatinta - the border is washed with the brush. This was the best state of the plate"
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Dimensions
- Image/sheet: 37.7 × 27.4 cm (14 7/8 × 10 13/16 in.); Secondary support: 50.7 × 39.3 cm (20 × 15 1/2 in.)
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Credit Line
- John H. Wrenn Memorial Collection
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Reference Number
- 1940.955
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/39430/manifest.json
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