# Two Grotesque Heads [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MELZI, Francesco]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Pen and brown ink, 54 x 99 mm ## Commentary Francesco Melzi was Leonardo's pupil and artistic heir. He worked as a painter, but he is primarily known today as a copyist of Leonardo's drawings. He successfully emulated his teacher's technique of tonal modeling in chalk and occasionally attempted to imitate Leonardo's left-handing diagonal hatching. Such is the case with this pair of grotesque heads, which are copies after Leonardo. The drawing depicts an old woman with an elaborate headdress and a man with large ears. ## Related artworks - [Five Grotesque Heads]() - [Flora]() - [Flora]() - [Pomona and Vertumnus]() - [Portrait of Leonardo]() - [Seven caricatures]() - [St Anne with the Virgin and the Child Embracing a Lamb]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()