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Guido Reni Italian. 1625–26. Not on view. Striking for its coloristic richness-a pictorial quality imparted by the combination of red and black chalk-this head of a young woman is a preparatory study for Reni's painting Judith and Holofernes, a celebrated and much replicated composition.
Guido Reni often produced individual, large-scale chalk drawings of heads as studies for the figures in his paintings. The present sheet was first published, as a work of Reni’s Roman period, by the late Stephen Pepper in 1981, and the attribution has since been confirmed by Babette Bohn and other scholars.
According to one biographer, Reni boasted about being able to “paint heads with their eyes uplifted a hundred different ways” to portray ecstasy or divine inspiration. Here, the artist’s loose,...
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A drawing of the head of a young woman, a headdress wrapped around her face, looking to right. Kurz (in K(B)) noted that a similar head appears in Renis Lot and his Daughters in the National Gallery.
28 de mar. de 2023 · The Museo Nacional del Prado and Fundación BBVA are presenting Guido Reni, an exhibition curated by David García Cueto, Head of the Department of Italian and French Painting up to 1800 at the Prado.
Head Studies and the “Heavenward Gaze” Reni’s draughtsmanship culminated in his “expressive heads” (arie di teste) in black and red chalk. Already highly valued and collected by his contemporaries, these head studies usually feature the “heavenward gaze”, which has become synonymous with his style and has found countless imitators.
