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Head of an Old Woman Looking to Lower Right (Saint Elizabeth)
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Head of an Old Woman Looking to Lower Right (Saint Elizabeth)

Medium

Brush and oil paint on paper

Dimensions

15 3/8 x 10 13/16in. (39.1 x 27.5cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1976

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Federico Barocci

1528–1612Duchy of Urbino

Italian miniaturist and painter who specialized in alterpieces. He worked in the Vatican for Pope Pius IV, where an attempt was made to murder him by poison. In injured health as a result, he returned to Urbino and died there. Comment on works: Religious