Shown from the chest up, a woman’s body faces us as she looks slightly off to our left in this vertical drawing. Her face and features are shaded in detail with white highlights that suggest pale skin. She has round eyes with heavy lids under lightly raised brows, a straight nose, and full lips in an oval-shaped face. Her headdress wraps around her neck and head and falls over her shoulders. She is enclosed by a drawn frame with rounded corners at the top and a curved bottom. The artist’s initials are partially visible within the frame near the lower right, “H.H.” Ink writing was added to a few areas of the drawing or has transferred from another page to this image.
Artwork Details
- Date
- c. 1508
- Medium
- silverpoint with brush and black and brown ink over charcoal and leadpoint, heightened with white on white prepared paper
- Dimensions
- 2968 × 4223 px
- Public Domain
- Yes
- Museum Record
- View original