Study of a Head of a Woman

anonymous, c. 1650 - c. 1700

  • Artwork typedrawing
  • Object numberRP-T-1898-A-4028
  • Dimensionsheight 85 mm x width 89 mm
  • Physical characteristicsblack chalk; framing line in black ink

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Study of a Head of a Woman

c. 1650 - c. 1700

Inscriptions

  • inscribed on verso: centre, in pencil (with the sheet oriented 90°), fn10 (?)

  • stamped on verso: lower left, with the mark of the museum (L. 2228)

Technical notes

Watermark: Countermark IV

Provenance

…; bequeathed by Daniel Franken Dzn (1838-98), Amsterdam and Le Vésinet, to the museum (L. 2228), 1898

Object number: RP-T-1898-A-4028

Credit line: D. Franken Bequest, Le Vésinet

Entry

The quality of the museum's sheet, which was formerly attributed to Cornelis Visscher, is not of the same level as the artist's original drawings.1Oral communication John Hawley, 30 August 2016.

Marleen Ram, 2019

Citation

M. Ram, 2019, 'anonymous, Study of a Head of a Woman, c. 1650 - c. 1700', in J. Turner (ed.), Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century in the Rijksmuseum, online coll. cat. Amsterdam: https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/200145415

(accessed 18 December 2025 21:49:56).

Footnotes

  • 1Oral communication John Hawley, 30 August 2016.