Saturday, March 30, 2024

Downcast Heads

Edward Burne-Jones
Head of Sleeping Attendant
ca. 1881-86
oil on canvas
(study for painting, Briar Rose)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Gaetano Gandolfi
Head of Young Woman
ca. 1785
etching
Philadelphia Museum of Art

Jacques-Louis David after Daniele da Volterra
Head of a Woman
in the painting Descent from the Cross

ca. 1775-80
drawing
(made in Rome)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Walt Kuhn
Large Head
1923
lithograph
Princeton University Art Museum

Gerrit Willem Dijsselhof
Study of Antique Head
ca. 1900
drawing
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Anonymous Italian Copyist
Head of the Barberini Hera
19th century
plaster cast
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen

Theodor Kittelsen
Classical Head
1874-76
drawing
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Edward John Poynter
Head of Psyche
1893
drawing
Princeton University Art Museum

Frans Floris
Study Head
ca. 1555-60
oil on canvas
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Augustin Pajou
Head of an Old Man
1761
terracotta
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Pietro Antonio Novelli
Head of a Youth
ca. 1770
drawing
Harvard Art Museums

Richard Parkes Bonington
Study of a Woman
ca. 1825
drawing
Yale Center for British Art

William Edward Frost
Study of a Woman
ca. 1850
watercolor
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Gustav Wentzel
Young Man with a Hat
1879
drawing
National Gallery of Norway, Oslo

Henry Wilson
Study of a Youth
ca. 1915
drawing
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Ralph Eugene Meatyard
Untitled
1959
gelatin silver print
Yale University Art Gallery


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