Seated Man Holding a Club or Other Implement (recto); Two Heads of Grotesque Men in Profile (verso)
Andrea Mantegna
1484–1500
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)
Dimensions
8 1/4 x 5 9/16in. (21 x 14.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1906
Accession Number
06.1051.6
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Andrea Mantegna · 1431–1506
Andrea Mantegna was born around 1431 near Padua, in the Venetian Republic, the son of a carpenter. At approximately age eleven he was taken into the workshop of the Paduan painter and antiquities collector Francesco Squarcione, who enrolled him as a guild member and immersed him in the study of Roman sculpture and classical Latin. Though Mantegna later claimed that Squarcione had exploited his lab...