A Seated Elderly Man Asleep

Provenance

(R. E. Lewis & Daughter, San Rafael, CA); purchased 2011 by NGA.

A Seated Elderly Man Asleep

François, Jean-Charles

c. 1758

Accession Number

2012.15.1

Medium

chalk manner, softground etching (and burnishing?) over etched texture (and lavis?)

Dimensions

plate: 38.9 x 28 cm (15 5/16 x 11 in.) | sheet: 39.5 x 28 cm (15 9/16 x 11 in.)

Classification

Print

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund