Portrait of a Man

1849

Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Associated Names
Henry Bonaventure Monnier

Artist, French, 1805 - 1877

The image is a pencil sketch of a man's upper body, focusing on his profile from the shoulders up. He has strong facial features including a prominent nose and slightly furrowed brow. His hair is curly and textured, with a beard or sideburns to match. The man is dressed formally in a dark coat with a collar. The background is plain, and there is a signature and some writing in the bottom left corner of the sketch.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(sale, Le Brech & Associés, Paris, 1 April 2016, part of no. 24). Dr. and Mrs. Michael Schlossberg, Atlanta, GA; Gift to NGA in 2017

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower left by the artist in brown ink: Henry Monnier; lower right by the artist in graphite: 14 Mai / 1849; lower right in graphite: 571

Wikidata ID

Q64573709

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