Untitled

About this work

You see a small, smudged drawing of a woman’s face, her features softly blurred like a memory half-remembered. No one knows who made it or what it was for. It was tucked inside a big book of sketches at the Rijksmuseum, just one page among thousands. The lines are faint, as if the artist barely pressed the pencil down. To see more quiet, mysterious faces like this, explore the Rijksmuseum’s collection of unknown works.