- The Head of a Young Woman is a drawing in silverpoint on paper by the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the Royal Library of Turin. See also.
- The composition of “Head of a Woman” was already very successful in Leonardo’s time, as demonstrated by how the subject was portrayed by students of the...
- Small holes at the base of each bust suggest that the heads were once attached to bodies that may have been used as crèche figurines.
- In these ‘studies of heads’ the artist was not interested in depicting an individual likeness, but rather a type. He painted the woman's face and long, loose hair with...
- Head of a Woman, Pablo Picasso (Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France), Pastel on paper.
- This may suggest that he began Head of a Woman at the end of 1924, and this tallies with Christian Zervos's placing of the work in the catalogue raisonné...
- Women combing their hair, or having it combed, often appear in Degas’s work, and this painting is one of his boldest treatments of the subject.
- Perhaps it’s a drawing of a woman’s head with her eyes closed and a pencil.
- Whilst in Head of a Woman, it was the hair that appears more like a rough drawing in a sketchbook, in The Virgin and Child it is the feet that look far more like a...
- Head of a Woman by Leonardo Year: c. 1508 Type: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 24.7 cm × 21 cm (9.7 in × 8.3 in) Location:Galleria Nazionale, Parma.
