Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
Leonardo da Vinci · 1490–94 · Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1490–94. Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left” (1490–94) 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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