DrawingsItalian17th century

Head of a Young Female Saint; verso: Sketch of a Head

17th century

Artists

Elisabetta SiraniArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Red chalk and white chalk on blue antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

25.9 × 19.3 cm (10 3/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Von Quandt. John Witt Randall, Boston, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892

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