Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left by Leonardo da Vinci

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

Tags

HeadsMenProfiles

About the Artist

Leonardo da Vinci · 14521519

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...

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