Head of a Woman
about 1635
- Medium
- Black and red chalk, brush and dark brown wash with white gouache heightening
- Dimensions
- 25.2 × 18.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-205276
To create a dynamic composition out of a single head, Jacob Jordaens used two colors of chalk plus bodycolor and a wash. The young woman's broad face fills the sheet squarely, with her eyes demurely cast down and lips pursed. Bold red chalk hatching suggests the ruddy color of her cheeks, while curving strokes of black chalk layered with lines of wash form her wispy hair. Dark areas of wash around her eyes give them depth. Throughout his career, Jordaens made many such studies of heads drawn from life, of his wife and of other women.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- about 1635 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — drawings
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