Head of an Old Greek Woman

Head of an Old Greek Woman is a painting completed in 1824 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix.

The final work was heavily influenced by Spanish artists and the French artist Théodore Géricault and shows the woman in full-length seated to the right next to a gruesomely depicted female corpse.

The image is tightly cropped, emphasising her fearful and near-weeping gaze.

[2] Her black dress, long dark hair, face and neck are rendered using chiaroscuro, although the final image is far more colourful.

Head of a Woman is owned by the Fine Arts museum of Orléans, France,[2] and is on long term loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.