Anton Raphael Mengs

The Triumph of History over Time

1771–75 (?)

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Medium

Black and white chalk, on blue paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 18 13/16 × 11 13/16 in. (47.8 × 30 cm)

Collection no.

2014.703.2

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Anton Raphael Mengs. The Triumph of History over Time. Anton Raphael Mengs; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, in honor of George R. Goldner, 2014. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.