Untitled

About this work

You see a small, smudged sketch of a woman’s face in profile. The lines are soft, almost blurred, like someone drew it quickly with a fingertip. No one knows who made it or what it was for. It’s tucked inside an old atlas at the Rijksmuseum, just one of thousands of loose drawings. The paper looks worn, as if it was handled often—maybe passed around, maybe forgotten. To see more works like this, explore the Rijksmuseum’s collection of anonymous sketches.