Silhouette of an unknown man with a derby hat, moustache and goatee
Anonymous
19th century
Medium
Cut paper
Dimensions
Sheet: 7 3/16 × 4 5/8 in. (18.3 × 11.8 cm)
Classification
Cut Paper|Ephemera
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Glenn Tilley Morse Collection, Bequest of Glenn Tilley Morse, 1950
Accession Number
50.602.315
Tags
Men
About the Artist
Anonymous
In the vast tapestry of art history, "Anonymous" stands not as a singular individual but as a collective designation for countless unidentified creators whose works have endured across millennia. These artists, spanning prehistoric cave painters to medieval illuminators and folk craftsmen, produced the foundational layers of human visual culture. Prior to the Renaissance, when individual fame emer...