The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Male Nude

Artist:: After Anton Raphael Mengs (German, Ústi nad Labem (Aussig) 1728–1779 Rome)
Date:: 19th century
Medium:: Red chalk
Dimensions:: sheet: 11 1/4 x 16 3/4 in. (28.6 x 42.5 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: Gift of Jill Newhouse, 2005
Accession Number:: 2005.474

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Inscription: by the artist, lower right: "Disegno di Raffaello Mengs"; lower left: "Lombardi fece regalo all amico sig. Alessandro Galt"
Provenance

Alexander Galt (American, Norfolk, Virginia 1827–1863 Richmond, Virginia), acquired from artist; Miles Chappell ; Private Collection, New Yorksince 1979; Kennedy & Co. ; Jill Newhouse, 1991; Private Collection, New Yorkuntil 2005; Donor: Jill Newhouse
See also
Who
Anton Raphael Mengs (12)

Giovanni Battista Lombardi (3)
What
Drawings (27,973)

Chalk (5,216)
Where
Europe (150,115)

Germany (15,991)
When
A.D. 1800-1900 (80,790)
In the Museum
Drawings and Prints (93,280)
Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
Central Europe and Low Countries, 1800–1900 A.D.