Head of a Young Woman
Artist: Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, 1725–1805)
Original Dimensions: 16 1/8" x 12 3/4"
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
About Artwork: (possibly 1780s) "Swirling clothing and hair join soulfully upturned eyes and a tilted head in order to condense an emotion—perhaps sorrowful longing—typical of têtes d’expression. Such "expressive heads" were part of artists’ academic training, but also enjoyed appeal as independent works of art. This particular pose captures the late eighteenth-century rise of sentimentalism, a largely literary movement that pulled on readers’ emotions, which Greuze used to great visual effect." - (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

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