Male Nude Study

1778

Anton Raphael Mengs

Associated Names
Anton Raphael Mengs

Artist, German, 1728 - 1779

This is a full-length drawing of a male figure from the back. The man is standing with his right leg crossed over his left. His left hand is on his hip, and his right arm is extended to rest on a tall block on the right, which he leans on slightly. His face is mostly obscured, although we see his nose and brow in profile as he looks to the left, and he has short, wavy hair. He has pale skin and is nude. The background is plain gray paper, with no other objects except for the block on the right.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite and black chalk on blue laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Howard Sturges

  • Dimensions

    overall: 52.1 x 34.5 cm (20 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    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

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