Lot 302
  • 302

Edme Quenedey (1756 - 1830)

Estimate
500 - 700 USD
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Description

  • Edme Quenedey
  • Profile Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
  • aquatint on paper
  • 5 1/8 by 3 3/4 in.
stipple engraving painted in color on laid paper with large margins. 

Literature

Ellen G. Miles, Saint-Memin and the Neoclassical Portrait in America, (Washington, D.C.: National Portrait Gallery and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994), pp. 43 and 45, fig. 2:19.

Condition

Diagonal crease and small tear; few losses on edges.
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