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Description: | A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Timoteo Viti. The drawing shows the head of a woman with her gaze directed to the right of the compositions and slightly down. The woman has her hair tied up with a transparent veil wrapped around it. She has curly bow lips and a pensive expression.
Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society:
"No. 8
TIMOTEO VITI
(b. 1467; d. 1523)
STUDY OF A WOMAN'S HEAD
Collection of the Hon. A. E. Gathorne-Hardy (from the Malcolm Collection)
Black chalk. 16.2 x 15.3 cm. (6 3/8 x 6 in.)
Full face very slightly inclined to the right, of closely similar character to the one by the same hand at Lille, is quite characteristic of Timoteo's manner of drawing from about the time when he is supposed to have stood in close relations with Raphael after the close of the younger master's term of training at Perugia, that is in 1504. Almost all the authenticated drawings of the artist are shaded in this manner with two layers of straight strokes drawn from right to left, at angles not much differing from each other and neither very far removed from the horizontal. In this case the eyes are unusually small and weak, and the characteristic feature of the very full bowed lips occurs with exaggeration. By the long nose, short upper lip and general contour, the head bears a near relation to that of the Virgin in Lord Northbrook's Madonna and Child attributed to Raphael. Other drawings in exactly the same technical manner, but of finer quality, have long been attributed to Raphael himself, e.g. the two well-known examples in the Malcolm collection at the British Museum; and to discriminate between the work of the two hands at this particular stage of their career is in truth not always easy.
SIDNEY COLVIN."
Technique: REPRODUCTION
Technique: collotype (print)
Reproduction by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Timoteo Viti, Woman's Head, (1932.69/8). | Source: | Manchester City Galleries | Identifier: | mcag.emu.ecatalogue.104974 | Go to resource |
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