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According to Frédéric Villot, a close friend of the artist and the original owner of this painting, the dramatically lit study of a woman's head swathed in red was painted by lamplight. More recently it has been suggested that the study was modelled on Pauline, Villot's wife, with whom Eugène Delacroix was enamoured. The vigorous treatment exemplifies the influence of Rubens on the work of the important nineteenth-century French painter. Although it does not relate to any finished composition, it may have been made as part of the artist's preparations for 'The Death of Sardanapalus' (Louvre), considered a key manifesto of the Romantic movement.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Head of a Woman in a Red Turban

Date

1831

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 41.3 x W 35.3 cm

Accession number

K2873

Acquisition method

purchased with the assistance of the Victoria and Albert Museum Purchase Grant Fund and the Art Fund, 1962

Work type

Painting

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

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Artist or maker

Eugène Delacroix

1798–1863

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