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Head of a Woman Looking to Upper Left

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Head of a Woman Looking to Upper Left

Ludovico Carracci | Annibale Carracci

1590–1600

Medium

Charcoal, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper faded light- brown

Tags

Heads Profiles Women

Dimensions

sheet: 16 15/16 x 14 1/16 in. (43 x 35.7 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1950

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Ludovico Carracci

1555–1619 • Papal States

Lodovico's style is charaterized by being less classical than that of his younger cousins, Agostino and Annibale, his figures have a sense of other-worldliness, and he is more influenced by Mannerist art than his cousins. Like his cousins, he espoused the direct study of nature, especially through figure drawing; he was influenced by the paintings of Correggio and the Venetians.

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