Man with doleful expression to left with hand emerging from cloak
An etching in profile of an elderly man facing left, his curly hair swept back and his face lined and downcast. A draped cloak falls across his shoulders, and one hand emerges from it at the lower left. Fine hatching models the cloak and the shadowed face.
Look closer: Inscribed 'Leonardo da Vinci inv.' and signed 'W.Hollar fec.' in the left margin.
- Artist
- Wenceslaus Hollar
- Date
- 1644–52
- Medium
- Etching; first state of two
- Source
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Size
- 1079 × 1569 px
Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1652).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)
Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917