A small painting of a young woman's head and one bare shoulder as she reclines on a background roughly sketched in black, blue, yellow, beige and red.

Giovanni Boldini
Jeune femme alanguie, c.1872
(A languid young woman)
oil on canvas; approx. 13-16 in.

Acquired from the artist by Arthur Veil-Picard; confiscated by Nazis during the Occupation; returned to the family, 1946; recently sold at Christie's, Paris.
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Sculpture of the head of a woman on a small pedestal, in painted plaster with the effect of bronze.

Sculpture of the head of a woman on a small pedestal, in painted plaster with the effect of bronze.

Sculpture of the head of a woman on a small pedestal, in painted plaster with the effect of bronze. Profile view, left side.

Sculpture of the head of a woman on a small pedestal, in painted plaster with the effect of bronze. Frontal view.

Augusta Savage (1892-1962)
Gwendolyn Knight (1913-2005)
painted plaster, 1934-35
Gift of Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
📷: Susan Cole

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Image in black, blue, pink white and red, of a girl with black hair, blue eyeshadow and red lipstick, with abstract art behind her.

Image of a man in a red shirt seated at a table, holding brushes with colourful paintings behind him.

L: Gwendolyn Knight (1913-2005)
Girl (Self Portrait), 2004
Silkscreen on paper
Studio Museum in Harlem

R: Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)
Self Portrait, 1977
Gouache and tempera on paper
National Academy of Design, New York

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Closeup black-and-white photo of two faces, a woman in profile, a man facing the camera. Gwendolyn Knight and Jacob Lawrence by Arnold Newman, 1947.

Gwendolyn Knight & Jacob Lawrence
📷Alfred Newman, 1947
image via New York Artists Equity Association

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A middle-aged woman in a red blouse, seated on a white upholstered chair with her arms crossed. She wears a gold bracelet on each wrist, gold earrings, and a gold pin at the collar of her blouse. Her expression is calm and distant.

Laura Wheeler Waring (1887-1948)
Portrait of a Lady, 1947
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of Vincent Melzac, 1977

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Three rows of about ten men of different ages in each row with individualized portraits and varied headgear.

Detail of Benozzo Gozzoli's frescoes of the journey of the Magi, Medici Palace, 1459.
The young man to the right in the middle row, wearing a red cap, is a portrait of Gozzoli. His hat is inscribed.
Had the place all to myself two weeks ago!
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Painting (self portrait) of a woman with brown hair and red lipstick, wearing a pink garment and looking over her shoulder at the viewer. Signed P Clark, 31-32.

Paraskeva Clark (1898-1986)
Self Portrait, 1931-32
oil on paper
Museum London

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That beautiful #face staring at us. #Fresco from the Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii. #Fridayfaces #FacesOnFriday #FrescoFriday #frescopainting #art #artyear #photography #foto #photo #ancientart #travel #history #archaeology #anzaa #eastcoastkin

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St Dominic, from the polyptych for San Domenico, Orvieto, by Simone Martini and his workshop (1320-21)
Now, Museo dell'Opera del Duomo
Look at the fine #painting of individual strands of hair!
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A triangular fresco fragment from Pompeii, showing a corner of an architectural element in pale green, grey and gold, above a profile head of a young man on a black background. Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

Fresco fragment with male head and architectural motifs
8 x 10 cm., from Pompeii
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
(not currently on display)
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A perfect profile.

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Carved capital of a lion in foliage
St Mary-Magdalene, Newark-on-Trent,
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Face of a Saint or the Virgin, 15th C, medieval fragment
Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, #Beaune,(Côte-d'Or)

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Round face in the moon, #MedievalGlass fragment
St Mary, Burnham Deepdale, #Norfolk

Heads carved on keystones of arcades of the Roman amphitheatre at Santa Maria Capua Vetere, now in the museum on the site
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Mary embracing her dead son, from the late 13th century scene of the Entombment in the crypt of #Siena Cathedral.
Most of these frescoes were only uncovered in a project that began in 1999.
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Fresco fragment of a face looking to the left, with brown hair and eyes and a segment of a bright red head-covering or robe.

Fresco fragment of a face from a Roman villa in the Trinquetaille district of Arles, France.

(Via: www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/37449)

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Self portrait, c 1930, by the writer Olivia Manning, which shows a serious young woman with short back hair, holding an open book and wearing a black poet's shirt with an open white collar. In the reddish-pink background are seven (?) blurred female profiles.

Olivia Manning, Self Portrait, c. 1930

Like the character Ellie Parsons in "The Doves of Venus," Manning was an art student (at the Portsmouth Municipal School of Art) before she was a writer.

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A watercolor & ink drawing in pink, orange, yellow, brown and black of a woman's face in semi-profile, with downcast eyes. By Madge Tennent, 1889-1972

A watercolor & ink drawing in pink, orange, yellow, brown and black of a woman's face in semi-profile, with downcast eyes. By Madge Tennent, 1889-1972

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Madge Tennent (1889-1972)
Portrait of a Woman (Two Works)
watercolor & ink, 1952

from the estate of Leonard Stanley; sold at Bonhams, 2024

Sepia photo, 1864, by Julia Margaret Cameron, of a 7-year-old girl in half profile.

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"[S]even-year-old Annie Philpot looks away from the camera, pensive, buttoned up in her coat, a schoolgirl parting in her hair. She might have come from the 1950s; she makes you think there is no such thing as a period face."

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A stone cornice with 10 (plus 2 more not seen) faces. Castello Svevo, Bari, 12th -13th century.

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A stone cornice in the Castello Svevo di Bari.*
📷by me, 2014

*Probably; photo was shot with a camera, not a phone, so no exact location was saved and my memory is questionable.

The cover of Hideous Kinky, a novel by Esther Freud, a 1993 Penguin paperback, with a black and white drawing of a young girl's face by Lucian Freud. Author's name at top in red, title at bottom in green.

Cover of "Hideous Kinky" (Penguin, 1993)
Drawing by Lucian Freud

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Watercolour (?) sketch of a woman's face in grey, beige, pink, black and brown; a French advertisement for Caron face powder, 1947.

Advertisement for Caron face powder from a French magazine, 1947 (artist unknown).
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Inuit girl

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