Artist: Anthony Van Dyck
Date: 1618
Size: 57 x 42 cm
Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, United States Of America)
Technique: Oil On Paper
Study heads of this type were painted by Van Dyck using live models, whose features were then repeated in finished pictures, usually of religious subjects. For example, this sketch served as the prototype for a likeness of the Virgin Mary in a depiction of the Holy Family. The iconography of the melancholy young woman with long hair streaming down her shoulders also suits images of Mary Magdalen. Intriguingly, an early biographer tells us that Van Dyck once depicted his sister Susanna in that guise.
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