Minneapolis Institute of Art
Head of an Old Man in Profile, Facing Right
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la GourdaineLinkedCulture matchlcp-1c835ac2bd49
- Date
- 1774–89
- Medium
- Etching and engraving on woven Japan
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
- Object ID
- 105145
Jean-Pierre Norblin de la Gourdaine was a French painter and printmaker active in Poland in the late 18th century. Norblin's charming miniature etchings, representing mostly male heads, street sellers, and vagabonds, reflect both in subject and technique the profound influence of Rembrandt's prints. Norblin was also drawn to Polish subjects, capturing the unfamiliar, exotic world around him in his depictions of men with colossal fur hats and curled moustaches, Cossacks, and Polish historical figures. Europe
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- Credit line
- Gift of John E. Andrus III
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