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Profile of unknown male sitter (round, facing left)
Alphonse Giroux (French, active 1811–1857)
about 1800
Medium/Technique
Etching, aquatint, roulette
Dimensions
Sight diameter: 5.5 x 5.5 cm (2 3/16 x 2 3/16 in.)
Frame: 15.2 x 13 cm (6 x 5 1/8 in.)
Frame: 15.2 x 13 cm (6 x 5 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Eleanor A. Sayre
Accession Number2002.493
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
DescriptionIn original frame.
Marks
Labels on verso: ALPH: GIROUX, / Rue du Coq. S. Honoré, N. 7, á Paris; Below, label of "Philip Hofer"
ProvenancePhilip A. Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984); to Eleanor A. Sayre, Cambridge, MA; bequest to MFA October 23, 2002