Male Nude Study
1778
Artist, German, 1728 - 1779

Artwork overview
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Medium
graphite and black chalk on blue laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 52.1 x 34.5 cm (20 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)
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Accession
1956.9.12
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Howard Sturges [d. 1955], Providence, Rhode Island; bequest 1956 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1993
Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings, Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1993-1994, no. 95.
Bibliography
1989
Sixteenth- to Eighteenth-Century French Drawings from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat. The Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, 1989: 154 n. I.
1993
Campbell, Richard J., and Victor Carlson. Visions of Antiquity: Neoclassical Figure Drawings. Exh. cat. Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Minneapolis Institute of Art. Los Angeles and Minneapolis, 1993: no. 95.
2000
Alte Meister: Zeichnungen und Aquarelle aus der Graphischen Sammlung.Exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Bern, 2000: 194.
Inscriptions
lower right: Antonio Rafaele Mengs / año de 1778
Watermarks
R[N?] ROMAN
Wikidata ID
Q64536253