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Beggar Man
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine1787
- Attribution
- Jean Pierre Norblin De La Gourdaine French, 1745-1830
- Medium
- Etching in black on ivory China paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/plate: 8.1 × 7 cm (3 1/4 × 2 13/16 in.); Sheet: 9.1 × 7.9 cm (3 5/8 × 3 1/8 in.)
- Credit line
- The Wallace L. DeWolf and Joseph Brooks Fair Collections
CATALOGUE RECORD
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Many of Norblin's etchings depict colorful figures in Asian or Polish peasant costume. It is unclear whether any of his prints appeared on the market in his lifetime; the earliest impressions are on tissue- weight paper, and many that are known today were probably printed after the artist's death.
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