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Artist, circle of: Jakob Matthias Schmutzer, Austrian, 1733–1811

Head of a Young Man

1780

Red chalk

sheet: 46 × 36 cm (18 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund
2004.20.1
Geography: 
Made in Austria
Status: 
By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Culture: 
Austrian
Period: 
18th century
Classification: 
Works on Paper - Drawings and Watercolors
Provenance: 

Owner's mark "59 NM," not catalogued in Lugt; Hill-Stone, Inc., New York, 2004; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography: 

Suzanne Boorsch and John J. Marciari, Master Drawings from the Yale University Art Gallery, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2006), 29, 33n.58, 210–11, 252, no. 71, ill.

This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of such records is ongoing.