Philippe Mercier, 1689 or 1691–1760, Franco-German, active in Britain (from 1716)
Title:
An Unknown Man
Date:
1746
Materials & Techniques:
Oil on canvas
Dimensions:
35 3/4 × 27 3/4 inches (90.8 × 70.5 cm)
Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Signed and dated, lower right: "Ph. Mercier [Pn?] | anº 1746"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1981.25.442
Classification:
Paintings
Collection:
Paintings and Sculpture
Subject Terms:
portrait | book | hat | costume | ruffles | brocade | headpiece | pattern | man
Currently On View:
Not on view
Publications:
Malcolm Cormack, Concise Catalogue of Paintings in the Yale Center for British Art, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 1985, pp. 158-159, N590.2 .A83 (YCBA)John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 36, no. 114, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA)