# Waist-length Figure of a Young Woman [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [RAFFAELLO Sanzio]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and ink over stylus underdrawing, 262 x 189 mm ## Commentary The young woman, whose upper body is leaning slightly backwards with her head inclined forwards, is drawn in a sitting pose with just a few strategically placed strokes of the pen. She might have been the model for the Magdalene in the Uffizi drawing \(Entombment, 1507\). If so, then Raphael changed only the position of the head when he put her into the complete composition. The artistic significance of this work is due to the sophisticated artistic techniques. Using a broad range of strokes of different thicknesses and inks of different intensities, as well as a very parsimonious use of lines, the drawing achieves a very three-dimensional effect which is particularly pronounced around the face, where the strokes are more generous and elaborated with pictorial and chiaroscuro techniques. ## Related artworks - [A Group of Nude Men]() - [A Group of Warriors]() - [A nude man advancing to the right \(verso\)]() - [A Soldier before the Cell of St Peter]() - [A Youthful Warrior \(recto\)]() - [Adam and Eve \(ceiling panel\)]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aldobrandini Madonna \(Garvagh Madonna\)]() - [Allegory \(The Knight's Dream\)]() - [Amorini at play \(verso\)]() - [An Angel]() - [Angel \(fragment of the Baronci Altarpiece\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()