Head of a Woman, after Greuze, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York"

Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart French
 After Jean-Baptiste Greuze French
 Publisher P. & D. Colnaghi & Co.

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This etching represents the only French painting (71.91) included in Jacquemart’s print portfolio celebrating the founding collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The etcher’s interpretation in black and white appears to exaggerate somewhat the intensity of the figure’s expression compared to Greuze’s painting, but critics for the "Art Journal" admired the "combined delicacy and power" of the plate.

Head of a Woman, after Greuze, from "Etchings of Pictures in the Metropolitan Museum New York", Jules-Ferdinand Jacquemart (French, Paris 1837–1880 Paris), Etching; third state of four (Gonse)

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