Head of a Woman
c. 1584
Medium
colored chalks on blue laid paper
Dimensions
overall: 39 x 27 cm (15 3/8 x 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Peter Josten in memory of Stephen Spector and in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art
Accession Number
1989.76.1
About the Artist
Federico Barocci · 1535–1612
Federico Barocci (c. 1535–1612) was an Italian painter from Urbino whose luminous, emotionally tender religious paintings made him one of the most original and influential artists of the late sixteenth century, bridging Mannerism and the early Baroque. Born in Urbino, the city of Raphael, he studied under Battista Franco and traveled to Rome, where he absorbed the lessons of Raphael, Correggio, an...