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Johann Rudolf Holzhalb (1723 Zurich - 1806 ibid.): Profile Portrait of a Young Lady with Baroque Hairstyle, c. 1775, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Inscribed below in the printing plate with an initial of the sitter: "W.". Signed by the artist below. The print is from Johann Caspar Lavater's Physiognomische Fragmente, zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntniß und Menschenliebe. Between 1775 and 1778, he published the multi-volume work in which human characters are explained on the basis of their physiognomy. Well-known artists such as Daniel Chodowiecki, Johann Rudolph Schellenberg or Johann Heinrich Lips provided models for his collection of physiognomics, which contains numerous portraits of well-known and anonymous people. Date: c. 1775 Description: Portrait of a bust in profile in an oval. After a model by "Balay". Source: Johann Caspar Lavater (1741 Zurich-1801 Zurich) Physiognomische Fragmente zur Beförderung der Menschenkenntnis und Menschenliebe, 1775 | Book, Genre Keywords: 18th century, Classicism, Portraits, Germany, Size: Paper: 32,7 cm x 26,5 cm (12,9 x 10,4 in), Plate: 19,8 cm x 15,3 cm (7,8 x 6 in)