Study of the Head of St. Augustine, for the painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint Augustine and Bonifacius (1846)

1846

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Graphite, pink wash, and white bodycolor
Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (32 x 28.2 cm)
Collection no.: 2007.537.2
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Edward Jakob von Steinle. Study of the Head of St. Augustine, for the painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint Augustine and Bonifacius (1846). Edward Jakob von Steinle; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2007. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study of the Head of St. Augustine, for the painting of the Madonna and Child with Saint Augustine and Bonifacius (1846) — Edward Jakob von Steinle. 1846.

Medium: Graphite, pink wash, and white bodycolor. Dimensions: 12 5/8 x 11 1/8 in. (32 x 28.2 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Gift of Roberta J. M. Olson and Alexander B. V. Johnson, 2007.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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