Head of a Young Man Looking Right

1774

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Reddish-brown chalk
Dimensions: sheet: 23 7/16 x 18 in. (59.5 x 45.7 cm)
Collection no.: 53.228.3
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Jacob Matthias Schmutzer. Head of a Young Man Looking Right. Jacob Matthias Schmutzer; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953. 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 Young Man Looking Right — Jacob Matthias Schmutzer. 1774.

Medium: Reddish-brown chalk. Dimensions: sheet: 23 7/16 x 18 in. (59.5 x 45.7 cm).

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

Credit line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953.

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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