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Prints and Drawings
Photo credit: Yale University Art Gallery
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:
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.
This work appears on our "Artworks with Nazi-Era Provenance Documentation Gaps" page.
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.
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.
