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Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779 Rome) Study for Janus framed: 60.2 x 45.5cm image 1
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Lot 103*

Anton Raphael Mengs
(Aussig 1728-1779 Rome)
Study for Janus

19 – 25 September 2025, 12:00 BST
Online, London, New Bond Street

£2,000 - £3,000

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Anton Raphael Mengs (Aussig 1728-1779 Rome)

Study for Janus
black chalk on laid paper, watermark fleur-de-lis within a circle, surmounted by a crown and a cross (?)
28.2 x 21.9cm (11 1/8 x 8 5/8in).
framed: 60.2 x 45.5cm

Footnotes

Provenance
With Chaucer Fine Arts, London, 1982, where purchased by the present owner
Private Collection, USA

Literature
S.Roettgen, Anton Raphael Mengs 1728-1779, Munich, 1999, pp. 407-9, 413, cat. no. 307 VZ3, ill

The present work is a study for the figure of Janus in Mengs's ceiling fresco Allegory of the Museum Clementinum or The Triumph of History over Time, in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library. We are grateful to Prof. Steffi Roettgen for confirming the attribution from photographs.

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