Male Nude Study

1778

Anton Raphael Mengs

Artist, German, 1728 - 1779

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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

    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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