1752
ink
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From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Francesco Algarotti is a 1752 ink by Georg Friedrich Schmidt, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This etching shows a man in a dark coat with a white wig. His face looks tired but sharp. Algarotti was a writer and art critic who helped shape taste in 18th-century Europe. He advised kings and counted Voltaire among his friends. His face feels real here—no fancy pose, just honest lines. See it at the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Georg Friedrich Schmidt was a German engraver, etcher and pastel painter, in the Rococo style.
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