The present 'impressionistic' and poetic head relates to a movement in Italian art which culminated in the sculpture of Medardo Rosso, and in France by Rodin and Camille Claudel. Though unsigned the present head links closely to certain works by Leonardo Bistolfi, for example La Bellezza liberata dalla materia, and Alfredo Pina (cf. Panzetta, op. cit.). The contrast of surface textures and the closed eyes and parted lips evoke a soulful tension in the present original head.