Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is a drawing made around 1510 and now held in the Royal Library in Turin. It is widely, though not universally, accepted by scholars as a self-portrait Leonardo da Vinci made of himself in his later years, and it has become one of the best-known images used to represent Leonardo as an archetypal Renaissance polymath, even though some historians still dispute whether the sitter is really Leonardo himself.
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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (c. 1510)
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Red chalk on paper
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Royal Library
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The drawing has been drawn in fine, unique lines, shadowed by hatching and executed with the left hand, as was Leonardo's habit.
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Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk (c. 1510) is a drawing currently in the collection of the Royal Library of Turin. It is widely, though not universally, accepted as a self-portrait of the Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is
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