Art, literature & history
Head of a Young Woman
1768
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and aquatint on laid paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 15.2 × 11.6 cm (6 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 × 11.7 cm (6 × 4 5/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2019.23.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. Head of a Young Woman. Jean-Baptiste Le Prince; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Young Woman — Jean-Baptiste Le Prince. 1768.
Medium: etching and aquatint on laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 15.2 × 11.6 cm (6 × 4 9/16 in.) sheet: 15.2 × 11.7 cm (6 × 4 5/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2019.23.5. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Ellen von Seggern Richter and Jan Paul Richter.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.