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The image shows a portrait of a person from the chest up, facing slightly to the left with the head turned towards the viewer. The person has wavy or curly hair, defined facial features, and is dressed in a coat with large lapels and a scarf or cravat around the neck. The background is plain.
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The image shows a portrait of a person from the chest up, facing slightly to the left with the head turned towards the viewer. The person has wavy or curly hair, defined facial features, and is dressed in a coat with large lapels and a scarf or cravat around the neck. The background is plain.

National Gallery of Art · Drawing

Adrien Perlet, Actor

Henri Grevedon

Date
1838
Medium
graphite heightened with white gouache on buff wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 20.2 × 15.8 cm (7 15/16 × 6 1/4 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Accession number
2019.184.12
Credit line
Gift in memory of Adolph and Jeanne Zelnick
Time span
1826 to 1850
Department
CG-E
Original NGA record
Provenance

Stephen and Claudine Ostrow, Silver Spring, MD; gift to NGA, 2019.

Inscription

by later hand, lower right in graphite: [not deciphered] Perlet, Adrien

NGA object ID 221129. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.