# Head of a Woman in Jerusalem

- By: Henry Ossawa Tanner (born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937)
- Date: 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.)
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=23661)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/f33e57077c63429685344330a33ee290.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.