Female Head
Medium
Red chalk
Dimensions
8-5/8 x 6-1/4 in. (21.9 x 15.9 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession Number
80.3.90
Tags
Art Historical Context
Nestled in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Department of Drawings and Prints, *Female Head* is a 17th-century red chalk drawing by an anonymous artist from the Roman-Bnese school. Measuring just 8-5/8 x 6-1/4 inches, this intimate portrait captures the subtle contours and expressive features of a woman's face, likely as a preparatory study for a larger painting or an independent work of artistry. Gifted to the Museum by Cornelius Vanderbilt in 0, it exemplifies the draftsmanship of Baroque-era Italy, where Bologna and Rome were hubs of innovative artistic training influenced by masters like t...