Portrait of M. Gambetta
Summary
Head and shoulders portrait of a man with a beard and moustache. The subject is facing to the left and is seen in three quarter profile. His hair is thinning from the forehead but is full at the back. The background is composed of dark horizontal lines with no detail. His head is modelled in detail, the rest of the portrait is in outline only. Monsieur Leon Gambetta (1838-1882) was a French statesman during the Franco-Prussian War 1870-1871.
Object Name
Portrait of M. Gambetta
Creators Name
Date Created
1877-1890
Dimensions
plate mark: 22.7cm x 15.6cm
support: 31.9cm x 22.3cm
accession number
1882.84
Collection Group
Place of creation
Europe
Support
paper
Medium
drypoint
Credit
Gifted by Alphonse Legros, 1881
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