1965.30: Head of a Youth
Drawings
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1965.30
- People
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Anton Raphael Mengs, German (Usti nad Labem, Czechoslovakia 1728 - 1779 Rome)
- Title
- Head of a Youth
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- 18th century
- Culture
- German
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296961
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Charcoal, red, and white chalk
- Dimensions
- 27.8 x 22.4 cm (10 15/16 x 8 13/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gifts for Special Uses Fund
- Accession Year
- 1965
- Object Number
- 1965.30
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 73, n.p., pl. 73, repr.
- Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
Exhibition History
- European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
- From Mengs to Menzel: 19th-Century German Drawings, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 10/28/1981 - 12/22/1981
Verification Level
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