The Head of a Young Woman in Three-Quarter View Looking Down (Study for Charity in the Sala di Costantino)

ca. 1519-20
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899
On loan to The Met
This work of art is currently on loan to the museum.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • 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