Bust of a Man
1522
Medium
Black and white chalk on off-white paper prepared with red gouache
Dimensions
Overall: 11 9/16 x 7 7/8 in. (29.4 x 20 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1950
Accession Number
50.202
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Wolfgang Huber · 1485–1553
**Wolf Huber (c. 1485 – 3 June 1553)** was an Austrian-German painter, printmaker, and architect who spent most of his career in Passau, Germany, as a leading figure of the Danube school. Born in Feldkirch, Vorarlberg, he had relocated to Passau by 1515 and quickly established himself as a mature artist. He was born into a family of artists and was widely believed to be related to the painter Han...