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The image depicts a full-body profile of a person standing. The person faces right with hands clasped in front, featuring delicate facial features, styled hair with a feathered headpiece, and wearing a long, flowing gown with intricate details and a train. Decorative floral elements and an inscription "1822" are visible at the bottom of the gown. The background is a simple horizontal line.
National Gallery of Art · Portfolio
A Lady in a Long Dress
Maria Catharina Prestel after Martin Schongauer
- Date
- 1780
- Medium
- etching
- Dimensions
- mount: 48.8 × 33.8 cm (19 3/16 × 13 5/16 in.) sheet (trimmed within platemark): 19.2 × 13.3 cm (7 9/16 × 5 1/4 in.)
- Classification
- Portfolio · Print
- Accession number
- 1948.11.265
- Credit line
- Rosenwald Collection
- Time span
- 1776 to 1800
- Department
- CG-E
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Dessins des meilleurs Peintres d'Italie, d'Allemagne et des Pay-Bas Tirés de divers célebres Cabinets (Drawings by the Best Painters of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands, Taken from Various Famous Cabinets) [plate 7]
Subjects and terms
- German
- Woman
- Dog
- Hat
- Portrait
- Dress
Provenance
(Walter Schatzki, New York); Lessing Julius Rosenwald, Philadelphia, PA, purchased 1947; gift to NGA, 1948.
Inscription
in plate, in image, lower center: 1472[?]; in plate, below image, at right: No 7.; in plate, below image, at center: Dessin de Martin Schoen.; in plate, below image, at left: E Museo Prauniano.; in plate, below image, at right: M. Cath. Prestel sc. 1780. [lettering trimmed and pasted to verso of mount]
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