Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1510–12
Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (presumed Self-Portrait)
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An old man with long wavy hair, a flowing beard and deep-set, stern eyes, drawn in red chalk on yellowed paper. Traditionally taken as Leonardo's own portrait in his sixties, though some scholars doubt it. Biblioteca Reale, Turin.
Up to 16 × 25 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (presumed Self-Portrait)
In 1839 the antiques dealer Giovanni Volpato sold the drawing to Prince Charles Albert of Sardinia as part of a collection. The nineteenth-century identification as Leonardo's self-portrait rested on resemblances to his image in Raphael's School of Athens and the frontispiece of Vasari's Lives. During the Second World War it was moved from Turin to Rome and was damaged in transit. Scholars including Martin Kemp, Carlo Pedretti and Martin Clayton have questioned the attribution, noting the sitter looks older than Leonardo's 67 years.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded as a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works contributed to the development of European art to an extent rivalled only by that of his younger contemporary Michelangelo.
All Leonardo da Vinci prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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