Head of an Old Greek Woman
Head of an Old Greek Woman is a painting completed in 1824 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.[1] It is a study for his large oil painting The Massacre at Chios ("Scène des massacres de Scio"); a depiction of the Chios massacre which occurred in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence. The final work was completed for that year's Paris Salon. The final work was heavily influenced by Spanish artists and the French artist Théodore Géricault, and shows the woman in full-length seated to the right next to a gruesomely depicted female corspe.[2][3]
The painting is bust-length. It was painted from life with oil on canvas[1] or graphite. The image is tightly cropped, emphasising her fearful and near weeping gaze.[2] Her black dress, long dark hair, face and neck are rendered using chiaroscuro, although the final image is far more colourful.
Head of a Woman is owned by the Fine Arts museum of Orléans, France,[2] and is on long term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Head of an Old Greek Woman, Eugène Delacroix, French, 1824". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 16 March 2023
- ^ a b c Tinterow (2003), p. 477
- ^ Allard (2018), p.25
Sources
- Allard, Sébastian. Delacroix. Yale University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-5883-9651-8
- Tinterow, Garry. Manet/Velazquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. ISBN 978-1-5883-9040-0
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- The Barque of Dante (1822)
- Mademoiselle Rose (c. 1820–1824)
- Head of an Old Greek Woman (1824)
- Orphan Girl at the Cemetery (c. 1824)
- The Massacre at Chios (1824)
- Horse Frightened by a Thunderstorm (c. 1824)
- Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi (1826)
- The Combat of the Giaour and Hassan (1826, 1835, 1856)
- The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero (1826)
- Louis d'Orléans Showing Off His Mistress (1826)
- Portrait of Louis-Auguste Schwiter (1826–1830)
- Woman Stroking a Parrot (1827)
- The Death of Sardanapalus (1827, 1844)
- Cromwell at Windsor Castle (1828)
- The Murder of the Bishop of Liège (1829)
- Liberty Leading the People (1830)
- A Young Tiger Playing with Its Mother (1830–1831)
- The Battle of Nancy (1831)
- Cromwell with the Coffin of Charles I (1831)
- The Picador (1832)
- Arab Rider Charging (1832)
- Women of Algiers (1834, 1847–1849)
- The Natchez (1834–35)
- Christ on the Cross (1835)
- The Battle of Taillebourg, 21 July 1242 (1837)
- The Kaïd, A Moroccan Chief (1837)
- Convulsionists of Tangiers (1837–1838)
- Warrior by a Tomb (1838)
- Portrait of Frédéric Chopin and George Sand (1838)
- Entry of the Crusaders in Constantinople (1840)
- Last Words of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (1840)
- The Sultan of Morocco (1845)
- The Abduction of Rebecca (1846)
- The Bride of Abydos (pre-1849, 1843–1849)
- Christ Asleep during the Tempest (c. 1853)
- Lion Devouring a Rabbit (c. 1855)
- The Two Foscari (1855)
- The Lion Hunt (1855)
- Ovid Among the Scythians (1859, 1862)
- Arab Horses Fighting in a Stable (1860)
- Horses Leaving the Sea (1860)
- Tiger with a Tortoise (1862)
- Sunset (c. 1850)
- Charles-François Delacroix (father)
- Charles-Henri Delacroix (brother)
- Henriette de Verninac (sister)
- Jean-François Oeben (grandfather)
- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
- Henri-François Riesener
- Jean-Henri Riesener
- Théodore Géricault
- Richard Parkes Bonington
- Paul Huet
- Ary Scheffer
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin
- Homage to Delacroix (1864 Henri Fantin-Latour painting)
- Delacroix (crater)