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Three quarter profile sketch of a woman’s head facing left

Quick loosely sketched lines portray the face of a woman filling the center of the page. Light curving lines indicate light colored hair curling over her forehead, above a styled arching eyebrow. Her left eye is dark and looking up and to the right, while her other eye is not drawn in. The woman has a small broad nose, full cheeks and a plump chin and smiles faintly. The image is shown framed in a mat.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1998.291
People
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French (Albi 1864 - 1901 Malromé)
Title
Female Head; verso: Female Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/299033

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
19.3 × 11.2 cm (7 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Jacques Seligmann Galleries, New York] sold; to Lois Orswell, Pomfret Center, Connecticut, bequest; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1998

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, The Lois Orswell Collection
Accession Year
1998
Object Number
1998.291
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Marjorie B. Cohn and Sarah Kianovsky, Lois Orswell, David Smith, and Modern Art, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2002), cat. no. 342, p. 365, 371

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