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Head of Bearded Old Man
1805 · Reddish-brown chalk
sheet: 23 9/16 x 17 in. (59.9 x 43.2 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Jakob Matthias Schmutzer
?–1811
Vienna
DrawingNeoclassicism
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19
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45
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5
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Jakob Matthias Schmutzer was an Austrian draughtsman and engraver working in drawing and engraving during the late 18th century. His practice engaged with the formal conventions of neoclassical representation at a moment of significant technical refinement in printmaking. Active from the 1750s through the early 19th century, Schmutzer contributed to the period's codification of classical aesthetic principles through disciplined linear work and tonal control.
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Rijksmuseum
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