Heads & Sketches
Quick, tender portrait studies on paper.
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci · 1510–13
Study of Two Heads
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1609
Head of Christ
Rembrandt
Bust of Pseudo-Seneca
Peter Paul Rubens · 1600–1626
Head of a Young Woman
Albrecht Dürer · 1522
Head of a Man
Jean-Antoine Watteau · ca. 1718
Portrait of Emma Hamilton
Angelica Kauffmann · Lady Emma Hamilton · 1791
Study Head of a Young Woman
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1618–20
Self-Portrait with a Visor
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin · c. 1776
Bust-Length Study of a Bearded Man with Cap in Three-Quarter View
Jacopo Bassano · 1510–92
Self-Portrait in a Fur Cap
Joseph Wright of Derby · 1765/68
Portrait of the Artist's Daughter Agata Dolci
Carlo Dolci · 1676–80
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
Leonardo da Vinci · 1490–94
The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left
Leonardo da Vinci · Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio · 1490–1500
Head of a Child
Jacques-Louis David
Study Head of an Old Man with a White Beard
Anthony van Dyck · ca. 1617–20
Caricature of a Man Pointing
Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 1610–80
Bust of a deformed old woman with one tooth, facing left
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1665
Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 18th century
Portrait of Charlotte Duchesne
Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1628
Study of the Head of a Youth Gazing Upward
Pietro Perugino · late 15th–early 16th century
Head of a Young Boy
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · 1763
Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso)
Agostino Carracci · 1557–1602
Head of an Old Woman Looking Up
Jean-Baptiste Greuze · ca. 1763
Head of a Man
Vasily Perov · possibly ca. 1870–82
Skull in profile to right
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645
Head of an Old Woman Looking to Lower Right (Saint Elizabeth)
Federico Barocci · 1584–86
Male head in profile to left with muscles exposed
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1660
Drawing of the Head of Michelangelo's Dawn (from the Tomb of Lorenzo de' Medici, Church of San Lorenzo, Florence)
Michelangelo Buonarroti · Anonymous · n.d.
Title Page, Diversae Effigies
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1648
Head of a bald man in profile to left
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1644–52
Head and shoulder of a child, in profile to right
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645
Bust of a woman looking downwards towards left with elaborately decorated hair
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1648
Two deformed heads
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645–50
Title page to Diversae Probae
Leonardo da Vinci · Wenceslaus Hollar · 1645
Male Head
Michelangelo · n.d.
Half-Length Figure
Michelangelo · n.d.
Portrait of Caravaggio, turned to the right and looking at his reflection in a mirror
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · Henri Simon Thomassin · Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · 1707–41
Emil Gauguin as a Child, Head on a Pillow
Paul Gauguin · c. 1875–1876
Emil Gauguin as a Child, Right Hand Forward
Paul Gauguin · c. 1875–1876
Emil Gauguin as a Child, Wearing a Collared Shirt
Paul Gauguin · c. 1875–1876
Emil Gauguin as a Child
Paul Gauguin · c. 1875–1876
Bust of Bellone
Auguste Rodin · 1883
Four Studies of the Head of a Young Italian Woman
Edgar Degas · 1856
Study for "Venus Verticordia"
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · c. 1864
Heads of a faun and a young woman (Les têtes d'une jeune femme et d'un faune)
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1792–96
Profile of Napoleon
Jacques-Louis David · c. 1810
Head of a Girl
Anthony van Dyck · c. 1618–c. 1620
Brünnhilde in Twilight of the Gods
Odilon Redon · 1894
Head of a Satyr
Jean-Antoine Watteau · n.d.
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