# Study of a Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PONTORMO, Jacopo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk, 202 x 123 mm ## Commentary Study of a Woman c. 1543 Black chalk, 202 x 123 mm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence In this drawing a young woman is shown bust length in what has been identified as widows's weeds. The costume and the pose of the face are identical to a <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/p/pontormo/3/14salvia.html'\)" href="/html/p/pontormo/3/14salvia.html">portrait on panel</a> identified as Maria Salviati, the mother of Cosimo I de' Medici. If the present drawing is a portrayal of Salviati, then Pontormo either was planning a historicizing portrait of her as a young widow or had executed the drawing many years earlier than the painting. Perhaps this drawing is really a costume study for a portrait of Salviati, for which Pontormo posed a workshop assistant in a widow's veil. ## Related artworks - [Adam and Eve at Work]() - [Alessandro de' Medici in Profile]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Alessandro de' Medici]() - [Anatomical study]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Birth Tray \(back\)]() - [Birth Tray \(front\)]() - [Christ before Pilate]() - [Christ the Judge with the Creation of Eve]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()