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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Portrait Study of a Young Man Holding a Book

Marcellus Laroon
1679-1772

Portrait Study of a Young Man Holding a Book

1724
8 7/16 x 6 3/16 inches (214 x 157 mm)
Graphite on paper.
1972.5

Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Vincent Astor and Mrs. James J. Rorimer.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated in graphite at lower right, "M. Laroon / Fecit. 1724".
Associated names
Duke, L. G., former owner.
Astor, Vincent, Mrs., donor.
Rorimer, James J. (James Joseph), 1905-1966, donor.
Bibliography
Robert Raines, Marcellus Laroon, London, 1966, no. 42, repr.
Marcellus Laroon, exhibition catalogue, Aldeburgh Festival and Tate Gallery, London, 1967, no. 31.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 171.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department