Head and shoulders of a Woman

ca. 1794

Dating: Approximate date range
Held at: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 2 13/16 in. (9.9 x 7.2 cm)
Collection no.: 62.119.6c
Attribution: By the artist
Image rights: CC0 1.0License details

Vivant Denon. Head and shoulders of a Woman. Vivant Denon; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Rogers Fund, 1962. 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

Head and shoulders of a Woman — Vivant Denon. ca. 1794.

Medium: Black chalk. Dimensions: 3 7/8 x 2 13/16 in. (9.9 x 7.2 cm).

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

Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1962.

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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