Woman Resting Her Head on a Book
Medium
Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper
Dimensions
Plate: 19.2 × 15.8 cm (7 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 17.6 cm (8 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
129481
About the Artist
Angelica Kauffmann · 1741–1807
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...