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Head of a Woman in Jerusalem
Henry Ossawa Tanner (born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937)
n.d.
- Medium
- oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 17 7/8 x 13 5/8 in. (45.4 x 34.6 cm.)
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
While visiting Jerusalem, Henry Ossawa Tanner painted portraits of the local people and used them for figures in his religious paintings. Tanner worked with an almost dry paintbrush to create the rough texture in this painting, a technique he used in other works.
