LEONARDO da Vinci
(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)

Grotesque head

1500-05
Black chalk on paper, 390 x 280 mm
Christ Church Picture Gallery, Oxford

The portrait - the largest among Leonardo's grotesque heads - represents a gipsy. The drawing was reworked by another hand.




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