# Girl Wearing a Headscarf [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [DALOU, Jules]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Marble, height 40 cm ## Commentary Girl Wearing a Headscarf 1890-92 Marble, height 40 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg The folds of the headscarf embracing the subject's unruly hair invest the sculpture with an ornamental circular motion characteristic of Art Nouveau. Dalou was active from the 1860s to the turn of the 20th century and paid tribute to all the successive trends of artistic fashion during that period. ## Related artworks - [Bather Drying her Right Foot]() - [Blacksmith]() - [Embroideress]() - [Peasant Woman with her Child]() - [The Courtesan]() - [The Embroiderer]() - [Triumph of the Republic]() - [Truth Unacknowledged]() - [Young Mother from Boulogne Feeding her Child \(detail\)]() - [Young Mother from Boulogne Feeding her Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()