Study of a Female Head

1890

Dating: Exact year
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Yellow, red, and green pastel with fabricated black crayon on red paper
Dimensions: 14 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (37.6 x 26.9 cm)
Collection no.: 1975.1.879
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. Study of a Female Head. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Robert Lehman Collection, 1975. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.

Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

About this artwork

Study of a Female Head — Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones. 1890.

Medium: Yellow, red, and green pastel with fabricated black crayon on red paper. Dimensions: 14 13/16 x 10 9/16 in. (37.6 x 26.9 cm).

Collection record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.

Credit line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975.

This is a museum catalogue record, not a current-display assertion.

Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.

Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.

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