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The Sleeping Wigmaker


Le Perruquier fatigué
Giovanni David (Italian, 1749–1790)
1775

Medium/Technique Etching and aquatint
Dimensions Sheet: 39.2 x 27.1 cm (15 7/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Platemark: 24 x 16.7 cm (9 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.)
Credit Line Katherine E. Bullard Fund in memory of Francis Bullard
Accession Number1972.418
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Grasso (Schleier) I12a (second state, with aquatint); Le Blanc 15
Marks Verso, center, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
InscriptionsRecto, bottom center of sheet, in pencil, "10"
ProvenanceGirolamo Durazzo (1739-1809)(Genoese nobleman for whom the series was created)(his bookplate on inside front cover of folio); his descendants in Genoa; R.M. Light & Co., Inc., Boston; from whom purchased June 7, 1972