Head of a Mustachioed Man, Three-Quarter View, 1817, Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson, French, 1767–1824, 7 5/8 x 7 1/4 in. (19.4 x 18.4 cm) (image, irregular)14 5/8 x 13 15/16 x 1 1/2 in. (37.15 x 35.4 x 3.81 cm) (outer frame), Charcoal, black and white chalk, with stumping on beige paper, France, 19th century, While this head study was likely drawn from life, the figure’s mustache distances him from the everyday world of Anne-Louis Girodet’s Paris. The drawing can be associated with the artist’s so-called Oriental heads or portraits—a group of late works picturing men from the Near East. Both real and imagined, these subjects usually have dark, thick facial hair, turbans, and, as one Girodet scholar observed, 'a heavy, impenetrable gaze as though this disturbing inscrutability were a specific trait of the Oriental portrait.
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