Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs, a leading figure of Neoclassical painting, worked across oil, chalk, and ink to depict religious subjects, portraits, and studies of the nude. His drawings and paintings in this archive trace a career shaped by close study of the antique and of Old Masters, from the Holy Family to Johann Joachim Winckelmann. The collection gathers nine works, including oils on canvas, red and black chalk drawings with white heightening and brown wash, a pen-and-brown-ink sheet squared for transfer, and one ivory piece, with dates assigned by the Met running from 1754 to 1777 and impressions up to that year.

9 works in the collection · All public domain (CC0)

The Vision of Saint Anthony of Padua

· Ivory

The Triumph of History over Time

1771–75 (?) · Black and white chalk, on blue paper

Self-Portrait (1776)

1776 · Oil on canvas

Pleasure

ca. 1754 · Pastel on paper, laid down on canvas

Oedipus before the Temple of the Furies between his Daughters Antigone and Ismene

ca. 1760–61 · Pen and brown ink, bown wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite

Johann Joachim Winckelmann (1717–1768)

ca. 1777 · Oil on canvas

Holy Family with St. John the Baptist

mid-18th century · Pen and brown ink, squared for transfer in black chalk

Rest on the Flight into Egypt (mid-18th–late 18th century)

mid-18th–late 18th century · Red chalk, graphite; squared in graphite

Seated Nude Male

n.d. · Black chalk, heightening with white, brown wash (?), on gray-brown paper