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The Getty buys a portrait by Anton Raphaël Mengs
26/12/23 - Acquisition - Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum - The Getty Museum recently acquired (see news item of 20/1/20) a portrait painted by Anton Raphaël Mengs, the first painting by this artist to enter the museum, which until now had only held a drawing and a pastel. It was a friendly portrait painted in Rome, offered by the Fabrizio Moretti Gallery.
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- 1. Anton Raphaël Mengs (1728-1779)
Portrait of Friedrich Christian, Prince of Saxony, 1751
Oil on canvas - 155.7 x 110.8 cm
Los Angeles, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Photo: The J. Paul Getty Museum - See the image in its page
It is another portrait, but this time official and painted early in Mengs’ career, when he was painter to the House of Saxony, that has just been acquired by the museum from the gallery…
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