Two youths in profile to left with two grotesque heads facing each other below
Medium
Etching; only state
Dimensions
Plate: 2 13/16 × 1 11/16 in. (7.1 × 4.3 cm) Sheet (trimmed to plate line): 2 7/8 × 1 3/4 in. (7.3 × 4.4 cm) upper right corner torn off 10 mm into image
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Accession Number
17.50.18-248
Tags
About the Artist
Leonardo da Vinci|Wenceslaus Hollar · 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...