Portrait of a Woman
- Medium
- Brush and brown wash and pen and brown ink, with graphite on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 22.7 × 20 cm (8 15/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
- Genre
- Prints and drawing
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
brush and washdrawings (visual works)graphitepen and ink drawingsprints and drawingpaper (fiber product)
About
Settling in Rome in 1818, Schnorr von Carolsfeld became a member of the Nazarene Brotherhood there. Also known as the Brotherhood of Saint Luke, after the painter-evangelist, this group of German artists painted mostly religious subjects, reflecting their interest in the Italian Renaissance. Rendered with a fine line like that of Botticelli, this extraordinarily compelling lifelike portrait was of a close relative and remained in the family until acquired by the Art Institute.
