Schwartz, J. Heinrich
German (?) (active ca 1760s)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Gfarbriz im Muez 1787 Symb alin g in gneral uz ormf ubm...

ca. 1787
silhouette
10.9 x 18.3 cm. (page)
Museum Collection
83:1610:0020

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 39.//

NOTES: Catalogued 1/98, DZ. Invented in ca. 1789 by Etienne de Silhouette (1709-67), Louis XV's minister of finance. "à la Silhouette" also means "on the cheap," since silhouettes were much cheaper to reproduce than portraits of miniatures.

SUBJECT: portrait, male