Grotesque Head of an Old Woman
Leonardo da Vinci · 1489/1490 · pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down
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About this picture
Grotesque Head of an Old Woman is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1489/1490. Pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Grotesque Head of an Old Woman” (1489/1490) 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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