Portrait of a Man
Leonhard Beck
c. 1515
Medium
black chalk on laid paper
Dimensions
Overall (approximate): 19.5 x 14.2 cm (7 11/16 x 5 9/16 in.) support: 29 x 23.2 cm (11 7/16 x 9 1/8 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1959.16.4
About the Artist
Leonhard Beck · 1480–1542
Leonhard Beck (c. 1480–1542) was a prominent painter, draftsman, and woodcut designer active in Augsburg, Germany, during the early Renaissance. Born into an artistic family, he was the son of the miniaturist Georg Beck, with whom he collaborated on two psalters for an Augsburg monastery around 1495. Beck began his training as an apprentice in the workshop of the esteemed Augsburg painter Hans Hol...