Portrait of an orphan boy, 1820

Title

Portrait of an orphan boy

Draughtsman

• Nikolaus Hoff

Production Place

• Stuttgart

Period Produced

• 19th century

Object Type

• drawing

Material

• graphite-clay mixture
• vellum paper

Technique

• pencil drawing

Geographic Reference

• German

Production Reason

• portrait study

Label at the Time of Manufacture

Datiert und bezeichnet unten rechts (mit Bleistift): Stuttgart 1820.

Captions Added Later

Verso unten rechts Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstituts, Frankfurt am Main (Lugt 2356)

Watermark

• Nicht vorhanden

Institution

• Städel Museum

Departement

• Department of Prints and Drawings

Collection

• Städelsches Kunstinstitut

Creditline

Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main

Picture Copyright

Public Domain

Genre

• portrait

Primary

• 61B1(+521) historical persons not known by name (+ full face portrait)
• 31D12(+1) youth, young man, adolescent (+ front view)
• 31B6213 looking sideways
• 41D222 neck-gear ~ clothing