Art, literature & history
Head of a Boy or Youth (in Sketch Book With Drawings on Twenty-six Leaves)
ca. 1849
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Graphite
- Dimensions
- Sheet (page): 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (20 x 27.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 42.21(13)
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Frederic Leighton. Head of a Boy or Youth (in Sketch Book With Drawings on Twenty-six Leaves). Frederic Leighton; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Fletcher Fund, 1942. 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
Head of a Boy or Youth (in Sketch Book With Drawings on Twenty-six Leaves) — Frederic Leighton. ca. 1849.
Medium: Graphite. Dimensions: Sheet (page): 7 7/8 x 10 7/8 in. (20 x 27.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Fletcher Fund, 1942.
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.