Johann Winckelmann

Angelica Kauffmann

1764, published 1780

Johann Winckelmann by Angelica Kauffmann

Medium

etching and engraving printed in brown on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 21.6 x 15.9 cm (8 1/2 x 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 52.3 x 36.3 cm (20 9/16 x 14 5/16 in.)

Classification

Print

Department

CG-E

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Gift of Henry and Judith Rice Millon, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.203.22

About the Artist

Angelica Kauffmann · 17411807

Swiss painter and etcher, and one of the few women artists of the time working in the Neo-Classical style to specialize in both portraits and subject pictures. Her famous sitters include the family of George III in Britain, Grand-Duke Paul and Prince Nikolay Yusupov in Russia, Stanislav II Poniatowski and Stanislav Kostka Potocki in Poland, Queen Caroline of Naples and Emperor Joseph II of Austria...

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