The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right

copy after Leonardo da Vinci  (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Le Clos-Lucé, Amboise)

Date:
after 1500
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened)
Dimensions:
3-5/8 x 2-1/8 in. (9.2 x 5.4 cm) irregular
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession Number:
17.142.3
  • Provenance

    Jacques Guillaume Legrand (French, Paris, 1743–1807); Joseph Allen Smith (London and Charleston, South Carolina)- according to an annotation on the old mountThis drawing was discovered underneath Leonardo's Allegorical Design (ass. number 17.142.2).; Thomas Sully (American, Horncastle, Lincolnshire 1783–1872 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania); Francis T. S. Darley(Grandson of Thomas Sully); Thomas Nash (New York, 1861–1926)(by inheritance)

  • References

    Leonardo da Vinci and His Followers in the Collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Exh. (no catalogue): March 5 - June 7. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, , . New York, 1981.

    Woldemar von Seidlitz Leonardo da Vinci: Der Wendepunkt der Renaissance. Revised edition. Vienna, 1935, cat. no. 122, fig. no. 122, ill.

    Carlo Pedretti Leonardo da Vinci: Studies for a Nativity and the 'Mona Lisa Cartoon' with Drawings after Leonardo from the Elmer Belt Library of Vinciana Exh. cat., in Honor of Elmer Belt, M. D. on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday, University of California, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, University of California, 1973, fig. no. 2, p. 16, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 111, fig. no. 111, pp. 120-21, ill.

    Maurie D. McInnis , et al., Carmen C. Bambach In Pursuit of Refinement: Charlestonians Abroad 1740-1860 Exh. cat., Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, April 9 - July 3, 1999. Catalogue edited by Maurie D. McInnis, Columbia, South Carolina, University of South Carolina Press, 1999, cat. no. under no. 49, fig. no. 80, p. 184., ill.

    Leonard de Vinci. Dessins et manuscrits Exh. cat. Paris, Musée du Louvre, May 5 - July 14, 2003. Edited by Françoise Viatte, Edited by Varena Forcione, Musée du Louvre, Paris, 2003, p. 162.

    Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman. Exh. cat.: January 22 - March 30, 2003. Edited by Carmen C. Bambach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Yale University Press , New Haven and London, New York, 2003, fig. no. 34, pp. 39-40, 43, ill.



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