Subject
Chestnut Hair
Chestnut Hair is a subject in art. The gallery holds 43 works in this subject in art, including works by Edgar Degas, Jean Honoré Fragonard and Édouard Manet.
Chestnut hair as an iconographic tag in museum collections identifies a physical attribute noted in the description of depicted figures — typically in portrait or figure painting where the sitter's warm brown hair color is a distinguishing characteristic. Such fine-grained descriptors are used in search systems for iconographic indexing.
Key artists
Works
The Dancing Class
Young Girl Reading
Madonna and Child
Madonna and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist
A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
Bacchus and Ariadne
The Three Graces
David and Bathsheba
Virgin and Child
The Pearl and the Wave
Landscape with Jupiter and Io
The Death of Cleopatra
Madonna and child
Tarquin and Lucretia
The Death of Cleopatra
Neptune and Amphitrite
Noli me tangere
Odalisque
Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson
The First Mourning
Girl at the Piano
Judith
Mrs. Fiske Warren (Gretchen Osgood) and Her Daughter Rachel
Brothel Scene
The Goose Girl
Leda and the swan
Nymphs filling the horn of plenty
Garland of Flowers around an Allegory of Farming
La Nymphe surprise
Leda and the Swan
Pandora
Danae
Christ in the Wilderness
Venus
Woman writing a letter
Girl in the Loft
The Death of Adonis
Portrait of Jeanne Hébuterne
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
The Bather
Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton
La Blonde aux seins nus
Untitled
Frequently asked questions
What is Chestnut Hair?
Chestnut hair as an iconographic tag in museum collections identifies a physical attribute noted in the description of depicted figures — typically in portrait or figure painting where the sitter's warm brown hair color is a distinguishing characteristic.
How many Chestnut Hair works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 43 public-domain Chestnut Hair works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Chestnut Hair artists?
Key Chestnut Hair artists in the collection include Edgar Degas, Jean Honoré Fragonard and Édouard Manet.
Where can I see Chestnut Hair works?
Chestnut Hair works in the collection are held by Mauritshuis, Rijksmuseum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.