# Head of a Girl [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VELAZQUEZ, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Chalk drawing, 150 x 117 mm ## Commentary Even in Seville, where he was accepted into the painters' guild of St Luke before he was eighteen and then, in 1620, opened a workshop and employed apprentices himself, Velázquez was already embarking on portraiture, a path that would lead him to a place among the major portraitists in the history of art. There are around half a dozen portraits extant of very different people from Velázquez' early period in Seville, including two sensitive drawings vibrant with life, both showing a young girl and dated to 1618. Since very few of the artist's authentic drawings have survived, these two are particularly worthy of notice. ## Related artworks - [A White Horse]() - [A Young Man \(detail\)]() - [Abbess Jerónima de la Fuente]() - [Aesop]() - [Arachne]() - [Breakfast]() - [Cardinal Infante Don Fernando as a Hunter]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha \(detail\)]() - [Christ in the House of Mary and Martha]() - [Christ on the Cross]() - [Court Dwarf Don Antonio el Inglés]() - [Democritus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()