About the Artwork
Two Grotesque Heads Facing Each Other in Profile
ca. 1510
Francesco Melzi
1493-1570
Italian
Unknown
Pen and brown ink on cream laid paper
Sheet: 1 3/4 × 4 inches (4.4 × 10.2 cm)
Drawings
Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Edward Fowles
38.61.A
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, in pen and brown ink, on mat, lower center: Leonardo da Vinci | 1452-1519
Provenance
Earls of Pembroke, Wilton House (Wilton, near Salisbury, Wiltshire, England). July 5-6 and 9-10, 1917, sold by (Sotheby's, London, England). Edward Fowles (Paris, France)
1938-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bean, Jacob. Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Drawings in the Metropolitain Museum of Art. Cat., Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1982, pp. 135-136.
Huxley, Aldous, Robert A. Millikan, Elmer Belt, and William R. Valentiner. Leonardo da Vinci 500th Anniversary Exhibition. Exh. cat., Municipal Arts Commission of Los Angeles. Los Angeles, 1952, p. 17.
Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 48, no. 11.
Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. Cat., British Museum. London, 1950-67, vol. 1: p. 73, no. 119.
Lesley, Parker. "The Growth of the Collection of Drawings." Bulletin of the DIA 18, 7 (April 1939): p. 3.
Old Master Drawings from Chatsworth. Christie's. London, July 3,1984, p. 54, no. 25.
Pedretti, Carlo. 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., University of California, Los Angeles, 1973, p. 40.
Strong, S. Arthur. Reproductions in Facsimile of Drawings by the Old Masters in the Collection of the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery at Wilton House. Cat., London, 1900, no. 15.
Valentiner, William R. in collaboration with William E. Suida, et al. Leonardo da Vinci Loan Exhibition Exh. cat., Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, 1949, no. 80, p. iii (ill.).
Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, pp. 233-234, cat. 190r (ill.).
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Francesco Melzi, Two Grotesque Heads Facing Each Other in Profile, ca. 1510, pen and brown ink on cream laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Edward Fowles, 38.61.A.
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