Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View, 18th century. Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper, Sheet: 10 3/8 x 7 1/2 in. (26.4 x 19 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, From the Collection of Rita and Frits Markus, Bequest of Rita Markus, 2005. Public domain (CC0).

Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 18th century. Red chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue-gray paper.

Three-quarter view
Side light
Drawing

Head of a young man turned three-quarters to the left and looking up, in red chalk heightened with white where the light from the left strikes the brow, nose and cheek.

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The image is free to use for any purpose: the museum has released it into the public domain.

Value studies

Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View as a study in 2 values — **Notan, 2 values.** Split at value 5.9: 36% of the picture is dark and 64% light.

Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View as a study in 3 values — **3 values.** 25% dark (values 0 to 5.5), 33% middle (5.5 to 6.4) and 42% light (6.4 to 10).

Head of a Young Man in Three-Quarter View as a study in 5 values — **5 values.** From darkest to lightest: 16%, 19%, 24%, 27% and 15% of the picture.

Split at the picture's natural breaks between light and dark, with Simplify at 5, as in the value study maker. Values run from 0 (black) to 10 (white).

Palette

#AE9D85Value 6.6, warm
24%
#B19479Value 6.3, warm
16%
#B8AC98Value 7.1, warm
15%
#B0876AValue 6.0, warm
12%
#A86A4CValue 5.1, warm
12%
#B07A5CValue 5.6, warm
11%
#9B583EValue 4.5, warm
9%
#4A4437Value 2.9, warm
1%

The 8 main colors run from value 2.9 to 7.1: 8 warm. See warm and cool colors for how the labels are worked out.

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