Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs

1747/1748

Anton Raffael Mengs
German, 1728-1779

Status: On View, Gallery 217
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Anton Raffael Mengs
Title: Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1746–1749
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 53.3 × 40.3 cm (21 × 15 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof
Reference Number: 1962.75
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Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report 1961-62 (Chicago, 1962), p. 13.
Steffi Röttgen, “Two portraits by Mengs in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 5 (1970), pp. 72-74, fig. 3.
Thomas Pelzel, Anton Raphael Mengs and Neoclassicism (New York and London, 1979), pp. 36-37, fig. 12.
Barbara Steindl, “Anton Raphael Mengs” in Dictionary of Art, vol. 21 (London, 1996), p. 131.
Steffi Röettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779 (Munich, 1999), p. 291, no. 222 (ill.).
Palais Dorotheum, Vienna, 7 April, 2006, Alte Meister, 2123, auction catalogue, p. 244, under lot 210.

Allentown, Penn., Allentown Art Museum, The World of Benjamin West, May 1-July 31, 1962, cat. 42 (ill.).
Storrs, Conn., William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Rome in the 18th Century, October 13-November 19, 1973, cat. 97.

Private collection or dealer in Cincinnati, Ohio, late 1930s [according to conversation of Philip Pinsof and Tiffany Johnston, 7 February 2002, notes in curatorial file]; Philip Pinsof, Wilmette, from late 1930s [according to conversation cited above]; given to the Art Institute, 1962.

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