Artwork / New Renaissance
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
- year
- 1490–94
- medium
- Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk
- dimensions
- 11.7 × 5.2 cm
Leonardo da Vinci · Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left (1490–94).
Fine pen strokes model a man’s face in profile. Leonardo reworked an earlier chalk sketch, changing the shape of the nose and the character of the face.
Historical archive · Curated by New Renaissance. Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Rogers Fund, 1909. Accession 10.45.1. Image: CC0 / public domain. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Museum collection; not offered for sale. Source: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339116
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