
AT-00020494
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Head of a Bearded Man in Profile to Left, possibly the Portrait of the Poet Giorgio Anselmi (ca. 1459-1528), with Faint Sketch of a Skull-like Head
Provenance
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Quick Overview
- Artist
- Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma 1503–1540 Casalmaggiore)
- Date
- 1503–40
- Medium
- Red chalk, the head at the left over a stylus sketch
- Dimensions
- 5 1/2 x 9 1/16in. (13.9 x 23cm)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1954
- Accession no.
- 1973.321
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Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00020494
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