# Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Hat [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [LORENZO DI CREDI]() - Date: 1501-1550 - Technique: Metalpoint and white highlighting on pink prepared paper, 295 x 210 mm ## Commentary Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Hat c. 1500 Metalpoint and white highlighting on pink prepared paper, 295 x 210 mm Musée du Louvre, Paris None of Lorenzo di Credi's easel portraits, for which he drew beautiful studies, have come down to us. The surviving easel portraits are rather tame, whereas the portrait drawings are among the best things he ever did. The old man in the present drawing has a genuinely pensive character and is quite moving. This drawing is perhaps the finest of the artist's drawing of old men. ## Related artworks - [Adoration of the Child]() - [Adoration of the Shepherds]() - [An Angel Brings the Holy Communion to Mary Magdalen]() - [Annunciation \(detail\)]() - [Annunciation]() - [Bust of a Boy Wearing a Cap]() - [Bust of a Man Wearing a Rolled-Up Cowl Hood]() - [Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate]() - [Madonna with the Christ Child and St John the Baptist]() - [Portrait of a Man]() - [Portrait of a Young Woman]() - [The Holy Family]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()