Portrait of a Youth
1923
Artist, Italian, 1852 - 1929

Artwork overview
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Medium
Chalk with stumping and white chalk heightening on tan multifiber wove paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 41 × 35.5 cm (16 1/8 × 14 in.)
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Accession
2012.124.1
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Faya Causey, Washington, D.C. (not in Lugt); gift to NGA, 2013.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
2000
Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929): Drawings & Sculpture in Naples & Rome, Kate Ganz USA Ltd, New York, 2000.
2014
From Neoclassicism to Futurism: Italian Prints and Drawings, 1800- 1925, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2014 - 2015.
Bibliography
2000
McArthur, Katherina, Ganz, Kate. Vincenzo Gemito (1852-1929): Drawings & Sculpture in Naples & Rome. New York, 2000: no. 5
Inscriptions
signed by artist, lower left, in black chalk: Gemito / 1923; by later hand, upper center verso, in blue pencil: Mayine [?] 50 x 60 [underlined]
Wikidata ID
Q64633813