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
Rights
Public Domain
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...