Portrait of Cardinal Zelada

1. Cardinal Francesco Saverio de Zelada (died 1801), Rome, until 1801. Probably Marchese Pierfrancesco Rinuccini (died circa 1852), Florence, by 1845 [see Rinuccini catalogue, 1845, p. 17, no. 16]. Antonio Baccelli, Rome, 1959 [lent to Rome 1959]. Marcello and Carlo Sestieri, Rome, 1959; sold to the Art Institute, 1969.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Rome, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Il Settecento a Roma, March 19 - May 31, 1959, cat. 1451.
• Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits 1600-1900 in The Art Institute of Chicago, July 8–Sep. 11, 1978, cat. 11 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Art of the Edge: European Frames 1300-1900, Oct. 17–Dec. 14, 1986, cat. 25.
• Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, Anton Raphael Mengs, Nov. 25, 2025–Mar. 1, 2026. cat. 28.

• Supplemento alla serie dei trecento elogi e ritratti degli uomini I piu’ illustri in pittura, scultura e architettura… (Florence, 1776), col. 107.
• Carlo Giuseppi Ratti, Epilogo della vita del fu Cavaliere Antonio Raffaello Ments… (Genoa, 1779), p. VIII; edition of 1795 (Pavia, 1795), pp. IX, 89-90.
• Diario Ordinario, Rome, no. 554 (22 April, 1780), pp. 8-9.
• [Giovanni Lodovico Bianconi], Elogio Storico del Cavaliere Anton Raffaele Mengs (Milan, 1780), p. [6].
• [Doray de Longrais], Oeuvres de M. Mengs, Premier Peintre du Roi d’Espagne & du Roi de Pologne, Professeur de l’Académie Capitoline à Rome, etc. (Regensburg, 1782), p. 25.
• C.F. Prang, Des Ritters Anton Raphael Mengs, ersten Mahlers Karl III. Königs in Spanien hinterlaßne Werke, vol. 1 (Halle, 1786), pp. 54, 110.
• D. José Nicolás de Azara, Opere di Antonio Raffaello Mengs, primo pittore del Re Cattolico Carlo III, ed. by Carlo Fea (Rome, 1787), pp. XXIV, LXVII.
• D. Juan Andres, Cartas familiares del Abate D. Juan Andres a su hermano D. Carlos Andres dandole noticia del viage que hizo á varias ciudades de Italia en el año 1785, vol. 1 (Madrid, 1791), p. 187.
• G. K. Nagler, “Mengs, Anton Rafael” in Neues allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon, vol. 9 (Munich, 1840), p. 106.
• Federico Fantozzi, Nuova guida ovvero descrizione storico-artistico-critica della cittá e contorni di Firenze (Florence, 1843), p. 724.
• G. Schilling, Anton Raphael Mengs’ sämmtliche hinterlassene Schriften, vol. 1 (Bonn, 1843), p. 27, no. 3; vol. 2 (Bonn, 1844), p. 202
• Catalogue dei quadri ed altri oggetti della Galleria Rinuccini per comodo dei signori che favoriscono visitaria (Florence, 1845), p. 17, no. 16.

Portrait of the Artist's Father, Ismael Mengs

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Saint Peter Visiting Saint Agatha in Prison and Healing her Wounds

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Upraised Right Hand, with Palm Facing Outward: Study for Saint Peter

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Still Life—Strawberries, Nuts, &c.

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Quiet Life in a Wooded Glen 林麓幽居圖

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Guard Drawing His Sword

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Gauntlet from a Tournament Garniture of a Hapsburg Prince

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Head of Comity

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