Head of an Old Man, 1770

  • Jean Jacques de Boissieu, French, 1736-1810

Etching printed in black ink on wove paper

  • Plate: 9 1/2 × 7 1/8 inches (24.1 × 18.1 cm) Sheet: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 inches (26 × 19.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S153

Signed and dated, in plate, lower center: [artist's monogram] 1770

Stamp, verso: Scripps 1882 (Lugt Suppl. 2357a) [date added in ink to the stamp]

Inscribed, in pencil, verso: C de R 103

1882, (H. Wunderlich and Co., New York, New York, USA). Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, Head of an Old Man, 1770, etching printed in black ink on wove paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S153.