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The Head of a Woman in Profile Facing Left
Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio
- Date
- 1490–1500
- Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- Silverpoint and leadpoint, highlighted with white gouache, on pale blue-gray (indigo) prepared paper. Media tested by the Department of Scientific Research, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, with x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (XRF) and fiber optics reflectance spectroscopy (FORS); October 1, 2019.
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Institution
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Object number
- 19.76.3
- Credit
- Frederick C. Hewitt Fund, 1917
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