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Head of a Woman
1919 · Charcoal on paper
20 7/8 × 15 3/8 in. (53 × 39 cm)
Sheet: 19 13/16 × 14 3/16 in. (50.3 × 36.1 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Marcel Lenoir
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Marcel Lenoir was a French painter and printmaker working in oil and etching during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. His figurative compositions drew on classical and medieval subjects rendered with romantic sensibility, rooted in symbolism and literary narrative. His work emerged within early modernist salon culture, where literary and historical themes animated his formal practice.
Source: Moma Bulk 2026 05 04 · Trust score: 92% · Updated 26d ago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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