Head of a Young Woman Seen from Below

Adolph von Menzel · 1886

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.

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

Other artworks to study

Adolph Menzel - Figurenstudie (1872) Menzel Study of a man with a ruff collar Adolph von Menzel Aufgestützte Hand Adolph von Menzel Modellstudien nach einem auf dem Bauch liegenden Mädchen Bust of a Woman, Seen from Behind Two Studies of a Right Hand LACMA M.2003.75