Head of a Man

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech, 1607 - 1677
after Leonardo da Vinci, Italian, 1452 - 1519

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1648

Etching on paper

Sheet: 3 1/8 × 2 5/16 in. (7.9 × 5.8 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl, and John S. Stahl in memory of their parents Barbara J. and David G. Stahl, Class of 1947

2014.73.85

Geography

Place Made: Czechoslovakia, Europe

Period

1600-1800

Object Name

Print

Research Area

Print

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, upper left, in plate: Leonardo da / Vinci [inix?]; inscribed, upper right, in plate: W Hollar fce / 1648

Course History

ARTH 16.17, Rembrandt, Joy Kenseth, Spring 2016

Provenance

Collected by Barbara Jaffe Stahl (1930-2004) and David Gerald Stahl (1926-2013), Manchester, New Hampshire; bequeathed to their children Susan E. Hardy, Nancy R. Wilsker, Sarah A. Stahl and John S. Stahl, 2013; given to present collection, 2014.

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