Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Composition in red ochre and white. Shaded suggesting volumes, few contour lines and smoky. Bust of a man against plain background. The depicted is at the center of the composition, 3/4 facing right, has thin face, short and disheveled hair, broad forehead, arched eyebrows, sunken eyes, straight nose and small mouth. It mustache that joins the cavanhaque the corners of the mouth. Collar tips in the high neck suggests you are using cover or mantle.