Bust of Angelique Mongez

Jacques Louis David · 1806

What you practise here

Pencil/sanguine portrait: likeness and facial chiaroscuro

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.

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

Other artworks to study

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