Portrait of a Sixty-year-old Woman, from Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde
c. 1757
Medium
Engraving in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
38.9 × 20.3 cm (15 3/8 × 8 in.)
Classification
engraving
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
58
Art Historical Context
Behold *Portrait of a Sixty-year-old Woman*, a delicate engraving by Dutch artist Pieter Tanjé, created around 1757. This work is part of the prestigious *Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus célèbres tableaux de la Galerie Royale de Dresde*, a celebrated series of prints reproducing masterpieces from the Royal Gallery in Dresden—one of Europe's finest 18th-century collections, amassed by Augustus III, Elector of Saxony. Tanjé, a master engraver known for his precise reproductive prints, captured the essence of an original painting, making elite art accessible to a broader audience through affo...