Paintings
Study of a Woman's Head
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- Date
- n.d.
- Accession number
- 26.110
- Maker
- Thomas Couture(Opens in new tab) (French, 1815–1879)
- Dimensions
- canvas: 18 × 14 3/4 in. (45.7 × 37.5 cm.) frame: 35 × 31 1/2 × 5 in. (88.9 × 80 × 12.7 cm.)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Description
- The sketch shows the head of a girl, slightly turned toward the left, whence a light illumines the right cheek. The rest of the face is in greenish shadow, interrupted by a patch of ruddy glow below the left eye. A tangle of chestnut hair upon the forehead and down the sides of the face is suggested by a few strokes over the flat underpainting. The whole is placed against a background, stained with tawny drab.
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