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Head of a Woman in Jerusalem
From the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineHead of a Woman in Jerusalem. n.d.. Henry Ossawa Tanner, born Pittsburgh, PA 1859-died Paris, France 1937. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Norman Robbins. CC0.
