Tapestry Cartoon Fragment: The Top of Woman's Head with Hair Braided over a Cloth Headdress
Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) · 1500–50 · Brush, yellow, orange, brown, gray and white gouache over traces of black chalk
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About this picture
Tapestry Cartoon Fragment: The Top of Woman's Head with Hair Braided over a Cloth Headdress is a public-domain drawing by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi), dated 1500–50. Brush, yellow, orange, brown, gray and white gouache over traces of black chalk. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Tapestry Cartoon Fragment: The Top of Woman's Head with Hair Braided over a Cloth Headdress” (1500–50). Raphael left few paintings. A drawing or print under his name is often a study, a workshop sheet, or a later print after a picture of his.
About the artist
Raphael, Raffaello Sanzio (1483–1520), was a painter of the High Renaissance. His madonnas and the Vatican rooms are the famous works. Many sheets in print rooms are drawings or later prints after him, not the paintings.
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