Chaucer at the Court of Edward III - Two Studies of Back of seated Woman's Head1847 Accession number: 1906P769 Pencil on paper. Width: 201 mm Height: 128 mm InformationThese two studies, of the same model, are for two of the women with the back of their heads facing the viewer in Brown's painting 'Chaucer at the Court of Edward III' (1851, oil on canvas, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney). The pose on the left matches that of the the woman on the far left of the painting talking to her friend. In the final version she wears a medieval headdress and her hair is in draped plaits. The second pose on the right is most likely for that of the woman sitting in the centre of the painting, in front of the fountain, and holding a rose. In the final version her head is tilted to the left and she wears a headdress which Brown sourced from a popular nineteenth costume book Joseph Strutt's 'A Complete View of the Dress and Habits of the People of England' (pub.1796-9).LM
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