Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001340Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs
Provenance
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.
Exhibition history
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.
Publications
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Anton Raphael Mengs (German, 1728–1779)
- Date
- 1747–48
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 53.3 × 40.3 cm (21 × 15 7/8 in.); Framed: 62.9 × 49.9 × 7.7 cm (24 3/4 × 19 5/8 × 3 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- painting
- Style
- 18th Century
- Place
- Germany
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Pinsof
- Accession no.
- 1962.75
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