Art, literature & history
Portrait of a Seated Man
c. 1800
- Dating
- Approximate
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- black chalk on bristol board
- Dimensions
- sheet: 24.9 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1979.20.112
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
John Vanderlyn. Portrait of a Seated Man. John Vanderlyn; 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:John_Vanderlyn,_Portrait_of_a_Seated_Man,_c._1800,_NGA_57061.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Portrait of a Seated Man — John Vanderlyn. c. 1800.
Medium: black chalk on bristol board.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 24.9 × 20 cm (9 13/16 × 7 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1979.20.112. John Davis Hatch Collection.
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.