Bust of a Woman

Joseph-Charles Marin

Cleveland Museum of Art

The sculpture depicts a woman's head and torso, shown from the chest up. The figure's facial features include a nose, mouth, and eyes cast slightly to the left. Her hair is curly and covered with a headband-like piece of fabric that has a bow on top. The woman wears a garment that crosses over her right shoulder and under her left arm. The sculpture's base is two-tiered and square. The upper base is gray and the lower is a slightly darker shade of gray. The background behind the sculpture fades from dark gray at the top to light gray at the bottom.