Head of a Woman
1600s
Medium
black and red chalk over graphite, heightened with white chalk (with additions? in yellow and orange pastel?)
Dimensions
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Classification
Drawing
Department
Drawings
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Sherman E. Lee for the fiftieth anniversary of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
1970.359
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...