Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
Leonardo da Vinci
1490–94
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk
Dimensions
4 5/8 x 2 1/16in. (11.7 x 5.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1909
Accession Number
10.45.1
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
HeadsMenProfiles
About the Artist
Leonardo da Vinci · 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...