Head of a Young Woman

1860s

George Frederic Watts

Artist, British, 1817 - 1904

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    black chalk heightened with white on brown wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of William B. O'Neal

  • Dimensions

    overall: 55.9 x 36.6 cm (22 x 14 7/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.52.193

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Thomas Esmond Lowinsky (1891-1947), London (Lugt 2420a); (J.S. Maas & Co., Ltd., London); purchased by William B. O'Neal, Charlottesville, VA, 1978-1994; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1993

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1993, no. 54.

1996

  • Drawings from the O'Neal Collection, Georgia Museum of Art, The University of Georgia, Athens, 4 May-16 June, 1996.

Bibliography

1993

  • NGA O'Neal 1993, ex 54.

Inscriptions

lower left in chalk: Study from Nature; by later hand, center verso in brown ink: This drawing by G. F Watts / was bought from the executors / of his widow. 1938 -. T E.Lowinsky.

Wikidata ID

Q64571427

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