# Head of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SAVOLDO, Giovanni Girolamo]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Black chalk heightened with white chalk on gray-green paper, 152 x 102 mm ## Commentary Savoldo small and homogeneous graphic oeuvre comprises roughly fifteen drawings. Almost all are studies of heads \(most drawn from life\) in the characteristically Venetian medium of black chalk on blue paper, often heightened with white chalk. Some of them were recognized as preparatory studies. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [Bust of a Youth]() - [Crucifixion]() - [Head of a Bearded Man]() - [Head of a Woman with Eyes Closed]() - [Head of St Jerome]() - [Portrait of a Man in Armour \(known as Gaston de Foix}]() - [Shepherd with a Flute]() - [St Anthony Abbot and St Paul]() - [St Jerome \(detail\)]() - [St Jerome]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()