# Head of a Man [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PISANELLO]() - Date: 1401-1450 - Technique: Black chalk with traces sof a stylus, 293 x 206 mm ## Commentary Head of a Man c. 1440 Black chalk with traces sof a stylus, 293 x 206 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris The sitter of this drawing is not identified. He wears an extravagant hat similar to those worn by courtly figures in Italian paintings from the 1420s through the 1440s. One such figure occurs e.g. in <a onclick="return OpenOther\('/html/m/masolino/clemente/09clemen.html'\)" href="/html/m/masolino/clemente/09clemen.html">Masolino's fresco in San Clemente,</a> Rome \(the figure mounted on horseback in the Crucifixion scene\). ## Related artworks - [Alfonso of Aragon]() - [Alfonso of Aragon]() - [Annunciation]() - [Apes \(from the artist's sketchbook\)]() - [Apparition of the Virgin to Sts Anthony Abbot and George]() - [Borso d'Este]() - [Borso d'Este]() - [Bust of an Old Man]() - [Cecilia Gonzaga]() - [Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg]() - [Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg]() - [Filippo Maria Visconti]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()