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A young woman dressed in classical drapery sits in profile braiding her long brown hair.

The fair-skinned woman sits between a flat stone wall on left and column on the right, with a mountainous landscape seen in the distance. Her drapery garment is off the shoulders, revealing her back, as her face is turned away from us. Her arms are bent at the elbows as they work on a second braid. Her bare feet peak out, her right foot toes touch the square-tiled floor while her left foot rests on a short decorative platform pointing right. The aquatint print drawing is rendered in gradations of deep browns.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
2017.244
People
Angelica Kauffmann, Swiss (Chur, Switzerland 1741 - 1807 Rome, Italy)
Published by John Boydell, British (Dorrington, England 1719 - 1804 London, England)
Title
Young Girl Braiding her Hair
Other Titles
Original Language Title: Die Zopfflechterin
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1765, published October 1, 1780
Culture
Swiss
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/359943

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Aquatint
Dimensions
image: 21.1 × 15.6 cm (8 5/16 × 6 1/8 in.)
sheet: 22.5 × 16.6 cm (8 7/8 × 6 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: lower margin, under image: A. M. Angelica Kauffman inc:e del [erased:] a Bologna Published Oct 1st 1780
  • inscription: verso, upper left, graphite: Bock, Abb 260
  • inscription: verso, center, graphite: Mit der [illegible text]drift! / 95 [illegible text] brut

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, November 25, 2016, lot 5324], sold; to [Jan Johnson Prints, Chambly, Quebec], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2017

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State
iii/iv
Standard Reference Number
Andresen 25; Baumgärtel 41

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Acquisition Fund for Prints
Accession Year
2017
Object Number
2017.244
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

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