Head of a Woman.

About Head of a Woman

Head of an Old Greek Woman is a painting completed in 1824 by the French Romantic artist Eugène Delacroix. It is a study for his large oil painting The Massacre at Chios ; a depiction of the Chios massacre which occurred in 1821 during the Greek War of Independence. The final work was completed for that year's Salon of 1824 in Paris. 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.