A Girl's Head
17th century (?)
Medium
Black, white and red chalk, on blue paper.
Dimensions
9 3/16 x 6 1/4 in. (23.2 x 15.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.542
Tags
Art Historical Context
### A Girl's Head Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints collection, *A Girl's Head* a delicate 17th-century Flemish drawing, created anonymously around that era. Measuring just 9 3/16 x 6 1/4 inches, this intimate study captures the tender features of a young girl, rendered in black, white, and red on blue paper. Gifted to the museum by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 0, it exemplifies the draftsmanship of Flemish artists during the Baroque period, a time when the Netherlands and Flanders produced masterful works blending realism and emotional depth. The use of the "trois c...