Art, literature & history
Thirteen Studies of Heads
1770
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching in black on thin wove paper
- Dimensions
- plate: 23.9 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 23.5 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1990.134.1
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. Thirteen Studies of Heads. Jean-Jacques de Boissieu; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Jacques_de_Boissieu,_Thirteen_Studies_of_Heads,_1770,_NGA_72030.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Thirteen Studies of Heads — Jean-Jacques de Boissieu. 1770.
Medium: etching in black on thin wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): plate: 23.9 x 18 cm (9 7/16 x 7 1/16 in.) sheet: 30.6 x 23.5 cm (12 1/16 x 9 1/4 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1990.134.1. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund.
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.