Title:
Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View Facing Left
Artist:
Carlo Cignani (Italian, Bologna 1628–1719 Forlì)
Artist:
or possibly by Marcantonio Franceschini (Italian, Bologna 1648–1729 Bologna)
Date:
1670–1700
Medium:
Brush and brown wash, highlighted with white and cream gouache (partly oxidized), over a preliminary freehand and ruled underdrawing in charcoal, outlines stylus-incised for transfer, on four glued sheets of light tan paper with deckled borders. Traces of framing outlines stylus-ruled along upper, right, and bottom borders
Dimensions:
18-1/8 x 14-3/16 in. (46 x 36 cm), irregular borders
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1966
Object Number:
66.14