Provenance

Count Otto Harrach

Austrian, died 1935

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Shown from the chest up, a pale-skinned young man with dark hair and a brown mustache and goatee looks at us from the corners of his dark eyes in this vertical portrait painting. His body and face are angled to our left, and his left eyebrow, closer to us, is slightly cocked while other is low over his other eye. He has a straight nose, a square jaw, and his pink lips are closed. His short, brown hair lays flat against his head but curls around the ear we can see. He wears a pecan-brown vest over a black, long-sleeved shirt with a white, lace-edged collar at the neck. His garments blend into the peanut-brown background so the light falling from the upper left highlights his features and white collar.
Anonymous Artist, Portrait of a Young Man, c. 1650, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.82

Portrait of a Young Man

Anonymous Artist · c. 1650 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.82

Bibliography

1965

  • Cooper, Douglas, ed. Great Family Collections. New York, 1965:99-120