Carlo Francesco Nuvolone

Study for Female Head (verso); Head of Christ (recto)

1635/40
Black, red, brown, and ochre chalks, with stumping and touches of graphite, heightened with white chalk (recto), and black, red, yellow, and brown chalks, heightened with white chalk (verso), on blue laid paper (faded to tan on recto)
35.8 × 27.2 cm (14.1 × 10.7 in)

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