Artworks · Jean Baptiste Le Prince

Shepherds in a Landscape before a Fortified Town

1777 · pen and brown ink with brown wash over graphite on laid paper

Overall (approximate): 26.9 x 40.5 cm (10 9/16 x 15 15/16 in.) support: 33.6 x 45.6 cm (13 1/4 x 17 15/16 in.)

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Les Laveuses (The Laundresses)

1771 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

sheet: 33.1 x 23.2 cm (13 1/16 x 9 1/8 in.)

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Les Pêcheurs (The Fishermen)

1771 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

image: 32.2 × 23.2 cm (12 11/16 × 9 1/8 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 34.2 × 24.2 cm (13 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)

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Les Filets (The Nets)

1771 · etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper

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Oeuvre de J. B. Le Prince Sur les Moeurs, les Coutumes et les Habillemens de différents Peuples, Gravé en partie à l'Eau Forte et le reste par le procédé qu'il a inventé pour produire l'effet des Desseins lavés

1770 · Bound volume with engraved title page, 88 etchings, and 36 etchings and aquatints printed in brown on laid paper [plus one loose etching and engraving by Guillaume-Philippe Benoist after Jean-Baptiste Perronneau (see 1942.9.1640)]

book (volume closed): 56.7 × 42 × 3 cm (22 5/16 × 16 9/16 × 1 3/16 in.) page size: 55.5 × 40 cm (21 7/8 × 15 3/4 in.)

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Head of a Man, Slightly Turned

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 14.4 × 11.1 cm (5 11/16 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.)

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Head of a Young Woman

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 15.2 × 11.6 cm (6 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 × 11.7 cm (6 × 4 5/8 in.)

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Head of a Turbaned Man without a Moustache

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

image: 10.5 × 9 cm (4 1/8 × 3 9/16 in.) sheet: 14.9 × 10.4 cm (5 7/8 × 4 1/8 in.), cut within platemark

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Head of a Woman, Full Face

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

image: 10.2 × 8.7 cm (4 × 3 7/16 in.) sheet: 14.2 × 11.4 cm (5 9/16 × 4 1/2 in.), trimmed within platemark

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Head of a Turbaned Man

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

plate: 15.2 × 11.1 cm (6 × 4 3/8 in.) sheet: 15.5 × 11.3 cm (6 1/8 × 4 7/16 in.)

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Head of a Drooping Old Woman

1768 · etching and aquatint on laid paper

sheet: 14.9 × 11 cm (5 7/8 × 4 5/16 in.), trimmed within platemark

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A Man and Two Women on a Rocky Shore

1734 · graphite on vellum

sheet: 14.6 × 19.6 cm (5 3/4 × 7 11/16 in.)

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A Farmer and a Sheep Crossing a Rustic Bridge

1734 · red chalk on laid paper

overall: 27.3 x 23.6 cm (10 3/4 x 9 5/16 in.)

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Two Russians Seated in Landscape

1734 · brown chalk on beige laid paper

overall: 28.2 x 22 cm (11 1/8 x 8 11/16 in.)

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