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Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso)

Agostino Carracci · 1577–1602

Bust-Length Portrait of a Woman (recto); Bust-Length Study of a Girl (verso) — Agostino Carracci
Face & Portrait ★★★ Advanced

What you practise here

Head construction: axes, planes and facial proportions

Start from the skull as a ball, place the brow line and the centre line, then check the thirds of the face before any detail. Compare angles, not features.

Draw this — free, no account Museum source

Public-domain artwork from a museum collection, reproduced for study. 100% real art — 0% AI.

Other artworks to study

Agostino Carracci - Foot studies - NMH 985-1863 - Nationalmuseum Agostino Carracci - Foot studies - NMH 985-1863 - Nationalmuseum Agostino Carracci, Head of a Faun in a Concave Roundel, probably c. 1595, NGA 53383 Agostino Carracci, Head of a Faun in a Concave Roundel, probably c. 1595, NGA 53383 Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci Portrait of the Artist's Son, Antonio Carracci Study of Heads (recto) Study of Heads (recto) Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Marie Emilie Coignet de Courson (1716–1806) with a Dog Study of Eleven Heads Study of Eleven Heads