Five grotesque heads, including an elderly man with an oak leaf wreath
Medium
Etching; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 9 11/16 x 7 3/8 in. (24.6 x 18.7 cm) Sheet: 9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (25 x 19 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.72.112
Tags
About the Artist
Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar|Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel (British, 1585–1646) and Aletheia Talbot, Countess of Arundel (British, ca. 1590–1654), m. 1606 · 1452–1519
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) stands as the quintessential Renaissance polymath, whose genius spanned painting, sculpture, architecture, science, mathematics, engineering, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing. Born in Vinci, Italy, as the illegitimate son of a notary, Leonardo received limited formal education but demonstrated extraordinary artistic talent from an early age. His appr...