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Head of a Man

Seth Wells Cheney · 1840-1854

Seth Wells Cheney: American, 1810 - 1856

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Head of a Man

1840-1854

charcoal with white chalk on wove paper · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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charcoal with white chalk on wove paper
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sheet: 76.2 × 54.61 cm (30 × 21 1/2 in.)
Collection no.
2015.19.901
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By the artist
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Seth Wells Cheney. Head of a Man. Seth Wells Cheney; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: National Gallery of Art

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Head of a Man — Seth Wells Cheney. 1840-1854.

Medium: charcoal with white chalk on wove paper.

Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 76.2 × 54.61 cm (30 × 21 1/2 in.).

Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.901. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958).

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.

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Seth Wells Cheney. Head of a Man. Seth Wells Cheney; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.