Head of a Bearded Man
Johann Friedrich Overbeck
ca. 1820–25
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
sheet: 9 3/8 x 7 13/16 in. (23.8 x 19.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Charles-Noël van den Broek d'Obrenan Gift, 2009
Accession Number
2009.203
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Johann Friedrich Overbeck · 1789–1869
**Johann Friedrich Overbeck** (3 July 1789 – 12 November 1869) was a German painter and a founder of the Nazarene movement. Born in Lübeck into a prominent Protestant family—his father, Christian Adolph Overbeck, was a doctor of law, poet, mystic pietist, and burgomaster—he received early classical and artistic instruction at the local Gymnasium under his uncle. Overbeck left Lübeck in 1806 to st...