Study of Thirteen Heads, 1770, Etching with drypoint; second state of three, Sheet: 9 7/16 × 7 3/16 in. (24 × 18.3 cm), Prints, Jean Jacques de Boissieu (French, Lyons 1736–1810 Lyons), Boissieu's graphic oeuvre includes several sketch plates such as this one, where an etching needle was used to draw independent sketches directly onto a prepared copper plate. A format originally associated with the learning process and an artist's initial forays into the medium, the sketch plate became, in the hands of Rembrandt and his eighteenth-century emulators, a vehicle for virtuosity
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