Portrait of a young man

Details

ANSELM FEUERBACH (SPEYER 1829-1880 VENICE)
Portrait of a young man
signed with monogram ‘AF’ (lower left)
graphite, black and white chalk, on brown wove paper
8 1⁄4 x 5 3⁄4 in. (21.1 x 14.9 cm)

Provenance

James Coats, New York.
with Shepherd Gallery, New York (German Drawings and Watercolors, 1780-1880, 1981, no. 162, ill.).
David M. Daniels (1927-2002), New York; Sotheby’s, New York, 29 October, 2002, lot 103.

Exhibited

Washington, D.C., The National Gallery, and other institutions, 19th and 20th Century European Drawings, 1965-1966, no. 20, ill.
Cambridge, Fogg Art Museum, Drawings from the David Daniels Collection, 1968, no. 40, ill. (catalogue by A. Mongan).

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Lot Essay

This drawing could be a self-portrait of the artist, as was already tentatively suggested by Agnes Mongan (op. cit.). Several painted self-portraits by Feuerbach are known from different periods in his life (J. Ecker, Anselm Feuerbach. Leben und Werk. Kritischer Katalog der Gemälde, Ölskizzen und Ölstudien, Munich, 1991, nos. 4, 54, 107, 133, 161, 255, ill.). If indeed it depicts the artist himself, the present sheet can be dated around 1850.

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