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    Artist

  • Quenedey, Edme, 1756-1830

    • Title

  • Portrait of Immanuel Kant

  • Physical Description

    Print : etching with aquatint in the round ; 10.5" x 8.25" ; 26.7 x 21 cm

  • Date

    circa 1800

  • Summary

    Portrait of Immanuel Kant in profile to the left. The etching is in a black frame with gold trim. Attached to the front of the frame is a postmarked German stamp with an illustration of Kant based on this engraving. On the back of the frame is a handwritten biography on the artist and the text: "from Henry - 1/26/65"

  • Depicted

    Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804

  • Subject

    Men, Portraits; Philosophers

  • Genre

    Portraits

  • Medium

    Etchings; Prints

  • Part Of

    Steven S. Schwarzschild Collection, AR 25376

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Biographical/Historical Information

Immanuel Kant was born on April 22, 1724, in Königsberg, Prussia [now Kaliningrad, Russia] and died on February 12, 1804. He was a German philosopher whose comprehensive and systematic work in the theory of knowledge, ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy, especially the various schools of Kantianism and idealism.

Edme Quenedey (1756-1830) was a portrait miniaturist and etcher who worked in Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg (1796-1801) and Paris.

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Citation

Quenedey, Edme: Portrait of Immanuel Kant, Leo Baeck Institute, 2009.021.