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Head of a Woman
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1862 (circa)
Production Description
Production Date: 1862 (circa)
Date Commissioned: 1862 (circa)
Model: Agnes Manetti?
Note: The female subject resembles Aggie Manetti.
Provenance
Current Location: Huntington Library Museum
Catalog Number: 72.36
Electronic Archive Edition: 1
File Name:
sa245.rap.xml
Scholarly Commentary
Introduction
The identification of this picture with the beautiful Scotswoman “of no rigid virtue” is tentative. See also the three other pencil drawings of her executed in 1862, the head and shoulders drawing, the drawing with a bunch of grapes, and the drawing with a chain around her neck.