Delacroix - Têtes de Dante et de Virgile, RF 9193, Recto

Eugène Delacroix

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

Anatomical Studies of Legs Écorché: Studies of Arms and Shoulders Academic Male Nude with Staff Study of a Left Arm and Hand MET 2001.524.3 Écorché: Three Studies of a Shoulder Ecorché: The Backs of Two Seated Figures