Large Female Head
Medium
Crayon-manner etching and engraving in red and black ink from two plates on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 52.2 × 41.1 cm (20 9/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Sheet: 58.6 × 43.8 cm (23 1/8 × 17 1/4 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
145155
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Marie-Gabrielle Capet (1761-1818) was a student and disciple of François-André Vincent and Adélaïde Labille-Guiard, two artists who later married. Capet lived with the two outside Paris, managing their home and holding Vincent in her arms when he died in 1816. An idealized portrait drawing of Capet, by Vincent was copied in this color engraving by Gilles-Antoine Demarteau, who was part of a Parisian dynasty of ornamental engravers famous for chalk-manner prints.