The Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View Looking Down (Study for Charity in the Sala di Costantino)
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.Artwork Details
- Title: The Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View Looking Down (Study for Charity in the Sala di Costantino)
- Artist: Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Urbino 1483–1520 Rome)
- Date: ca. 1519-20
- Medium: Charcoal, soft grayish black chalk and denser black chalk; slight accenting of shaows with wetted black chalk; minor accenting in black wash by a restorer (on the hair at the left and the iris of the eye); traces of white gouache highlights (now sunken); finely stylus-incised outlines; on beige paper, glued onto a secondary paper support
- Dimensions: 9 1/16 × 6 5/16 in. (23 × 16.1 cm)
Framed: 23 7/16 in. × 18 9/16 in. × 7/8 in. (59.5 × 47.2 × 2.3 cm) - Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts Graphiques, Paris (10958)
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints