Art, literature & history
Head of a Woman
1840-1854
- Dating
- Date range
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- charcoal with white chalk on wove paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 76.2 × 54.61 cm (30 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2015.19.902
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Seth Wells Cheney. Head of a Woman. Seth Wells Cheney; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958). CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Head of a Woman — Seth Wells Cheney. 1840-1854.
Medium: charcoal with white chalk on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): sheet: 76.2 × 54.61 cm (30 × 21 1/2 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2015.19.902. Corcoran Collection (Gift of Alice F. Williams, 1958).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.