Art, literature & history
Self Portrait as a Young Man
ca. 1780
- Dating
- Approximate date range
- Medium
- Pen and black ink over graphite, framing line in pen and brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 6 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (16.3 x 15.6 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2012.150.5
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Vivant Denon. Self Portrait as a Young Man. Vivant Denon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012. 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
Self Portrait as a Young Man — Vivant Denon. ca. 1780.
Medium: Pen and black ink over graphite, framing line in pen and brown ink. Dimensions: Sheet: 6 7/16 x 6 1/8 in. (16.3 x 15.6 cm).
Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2012.
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.