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Smiling Head, Self-portrait (Lächelnder Kopf, Selbstporträt)
1923
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching and engraving, printed in black and green
- Dimensions
- sheet: 53 × 39 cm (20 7/8 × 15 3/8 in.) plate: 25.5 × 17.5 cm (10 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2012.92.252
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Walter Gramatté. Smiling Head, Self-portrait (Lächelnder Kopf, Selbstporträt). Walter Gramatté; 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:Walter_Gramatt%C3%A9,_Smiling_Head,_Self-portrait_(L%C3%A4chelnder_Kopf,_Selbstportr%C3%A4t),_1923,_NGA_153634.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Smiling Head, Self-portrait (Lächelnder Kopf, Selbstporträt) — Walter Gramatté. 1923.
Medium: etching and engraving, printed in black and green.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 53 × 39 cm (20 7/8 × 15 3/8 in.) plate: 25.5 × 17.5 cm (10 1/16 × 6 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2012.92.252. Gift of Ruth Cole Kainen.
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.