Head of a Mustachioed Man, Three-Quarter View

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, 1817

While this head study was likely drawn from life, the figure’s mustache distances him from the everyday world of Anne-Louis Girodet’s Paris. · description from the collection

Collection data

Artist: Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson ¹
Date: 1817 ¹
Medium: Charcoal, black and white chalk, with stumping on beige paper ¹
Original: 6,962 × 7,090 px ¹
License: Public domain (Minneapolis Institute of Art)
Credit: Minneapolis Institute of Art, Gift of funds from an Anonymous Donor, the Print and Drawing Council and The Fiduciary Fund

Object record, Minneapolis Institute of Art

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Untitled (Woods in Snow), William James Stillman

Res. of Mrs. Clemment; 2 children killed; Mrs. C. wounded. [Tornado of June 17, 1882, at Grinnell, Iowa], D. H. Cross

The image shows a side view of two women in a partial body frame. The woman on the left is seated on a simple wooden chair with a high back. She has a balanced posture with her face turned towards the other woman.

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