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
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...