print
- Museum number
- 1929,0608.15
- Title
- Object: L'Origine de la Peinture ou les portraits à la mode
- Description
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Dark room with man tracing the shadow of a woman sitting in front of a lamp, on a sheet nailed on the wall behind her; on the left, children tracing the silhouette of a cat, and another child casting the shadow of a rabbit with his fingers
Engraving
- Production date
- 1755-1784
- Dimensions
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Height: 489 millimetres
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Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A pair to 1929-6-8-14; duplicate to 1866-4-7-813.
Lit.: Anke Frölich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737-1806): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Johann Eleazar Zeissig, gen. Schenau', Petersberg, 2018, cat. no. GA 184.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1929
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1929,0608.15