Art, literature & history
Male Nude Study
1778
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- graphite and black chalk on blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 52.1 x 34.5 cm (20 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1956.9.12
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Anton Raphael Mengs. Male Nude Study. Anton Raphael Mengs; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anton_Raphael_Mengs,_Male_Nude_Study,_1778,_NGA_43606.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Male Nude Study — Anton Raphael Mengs. 1778.
Medium: graphite and black chalk on blue laid paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 52.1 x 34.5 cm (20 1/2 x 13 9/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1956.9.12. Gift of Howard Sturges.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.