Tête de Femme (Head of a Woman)
Paul César Helleu, French, 1859 - 1927
about 1900
Charcoal, sanguine heightened with white on brown gray paper
Sheet: 11 × 8 1/4 in. (27.9 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Julia L. Whittier Fund
D.968.89
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on reverse, in graphite, lower right corner: Helleu
Exhibition History
Drawings at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 27-November 27, 1988.
Retrospective exhibition, Musee de Dieppe, France, 1962.
Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Carpenter Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 30-September 21, 1975.
Publication History
Franklin W. Robinson, [et al.], Works on Paper: Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Dartmouth College Collection, Hanover, N.H.: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 1975, p. 26.
Worldwide I 3, p. 8.
Provenance
Artine Artinian (1907-2005); sold to present collection, 1968.
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