Profile Portrait of a Man
18th century
Louis Rolland Trinquesse
Louis Rolland Trinquesse (French, c. 1746–c. 1800)
Drawings
Profile Portrait of a Man, 18th century. Attributed to Louis Rolland Trinquesse (French, c. 1746–c. 1800). Black chalk counterproof; sheet: 20.3 x 17.5 cm (8 x 6 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Muriel Butkin 2018.41 This portrait bust is a counterproof: the reverse image of a composition, made by placing blank paper on top of a drawing and transferring the design with pressure. Eighteenth-century artists frequently made counterproofs of their drawings to replicate their work. This process also enabled them to experience how their images would appear if they were reproduced as prints.
- Maker/Artist
- Trinquesse, Louis Rolland
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- Black chalk counterproof
- Medium
- black, chalk, counterproof
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 20.3 x 17.5 cm (8 x 6 7/8 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: verso: lower right corner, in graphite: 798 Inscription: mount, lower right, in graphite: Contre éprecue Inscription: verso of mount: center, in graphite: 798 / Ctm Epr. Trinquesse; upper left corner, in graphite: trinquessé Inscription: Countermark: center: J Honig / & / Zoonen Inscription: framer’s sticker: R. Charpentier/ 104.Ba Haussmann/ Paris
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 2018.41
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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