1956.3: Head of a Young Woman
DrawingsThe drawing in oil on tracing paper depicts a woman center page, cropped beneath her collarbones. Her face is turned in profile to the right of the page, her gaze straight. She wears her dark, straight hair back; gathered at the nape. There are suggestions of a draped garment around her shoulders.
Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1956.3
- People
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Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, French (Montauban 1780 - 1867 Paris)
- Title
- Head of a Young Woman
- Classification
- Drawings
- Work Type
- drawing
- Date
- c. 1855?
- Culture
- French
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/296903
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Oil over graphite on tracing paper
- Dimensions
- actual: 35.3 x 26.6 cm (13 7/8 x 10 1/2 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Gordon Washburn and Philip Hofer as homage to the "Ingriste" of the Fogg Museum
- Accession Year
- 1956
- Object Number
- 1956.3
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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