Head of a Woman
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
1800/10
Medium
Black chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper, laid down on cream laid card
Dimensions
36.2 × 28.5 cm (14 5/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4945
About the Artist
Pierre Paul Prud'hon
Pierre Paul Prud'hon (1758–1823) was a French painter and draughtsman whose dreamy, sensuous art occupied a singular position between the Neoclassicism and Romanticism that competed for dominance in French painting around 1800. Born in Cluny in Burgundy, he received his early artistic training at the Dijon Academy before winning the Prix de Rome of the Estates of Burgundy, which allowed him to spe...