Head of a Woman: Madeleine (Tête de femme: Madeleine)
Pablo Picasso
1905
Medium
etching
Classification
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Karl Leubsdorf
Accession Number
1979.58.5
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Pablo Picasso · 1881–1973
Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), born Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso in Málaga, Spain, was the son of José Ruiz Blasco, a painter and art professor who served as his first teacher. From age seven, Picasso trained under his father in figure drawing and oil painting, mastering naturalistic techniques by copying mas...