Portrait of a Girl

About this work

This is a black-and-white drawing of a young woman with pale skin and dark hair tied back. She wears a light-colored dress with ruffles at the neckline and a beaded necklace. The frame around her looks like a carved picture frame, with swirls and flowers at the top. The artist used shading to make her face look three-dimensional, especially around her eyes and cheeks. The lines in her dress and the frame are very precise, almost like an etching. Look up chiaroscuro next to see how artists use light and shadow like this.