The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci · after 1500 · Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened)
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated after 1500. Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened). The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right” (after 1500) belongs with Leonardo’s notebooks more than with his few paintings: a figure, a plant, water, or a machine, drawn so the idea stays visible.
About the artist
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a Florentine painter whose notebooks mix figure studies, machines, water, and plants. Few paintings survive; the drawings are where most of the thinking is visible.
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