Un couple grotesque: Vieille femme avec un Headdress élaboré et vieux homme avec de grandes oreilles et manquant d'un Chin 1491/93–1570 attribué à Giovanni Francesco Melzi Italien ces deux figures grotesque dans le profil de buste, face à l'autre, sont des copies de dessins originaux de Leonardo da Vinci,Dessiné par son fidèle élève et héritier artistique, Giovanni Francesco Melzi.Melzi a produit une série de ces couples grotesques après les dessins originaux de Léonard, appelés « Grotesques de Pembroke » après les Earls de Pembroke qui les possédaient autrefois.Dans de nombreux cas, les deux dessins originaux de grotesques par Leona

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A Grotesque Couple: Old Woman with an Elaborate Headdress and Old Man with Large Ears and Lacking a Chin 1491/93–1570 Attributed to Giovanni Francesco Melzi Italian These two grotesque figures in bust-length profile, facing one another, are copies after original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, drawn by his faithful pupil and artistic heir, Giovanni Francesco Melzi. Melzi produced a series of these grotesque couples after Leonardo's original drawings, called the "Pembroke Grotesques" after the Earls of Pembroke who once owned them. In many cases, both the original drawings of grotesques by Leonardo and the close copies by Melzi exist, which provides the opportunity for careful comparisons. The attribution of the Pembroke Grotesques to Melzi was originally proposed by Carlo Pedretti in 1973, and is now widely accepted by scholars. Melzi not only copied closely the forms in Leonardo's original models, but he also imitated his master's technique of diagonal, parallel-hatching with left-handed strokes: the lines in the hatching appear to go in an upper-left to lower-right direction (as in all of Leonardo's drawings). In looking closely at this hatching under magnification, however, one can see that Melzi worked slowly and timidly, checking every one of his strokes against his master's original, pausing and starting, and also probably continuously turning the paper around as he drew, in order to achieve the appearance of Leonardo's manner of hatching. In comparison, the great master's original drawings are clearly identifiable because the left-handed strokes occur with natural movements of the hand, done fast, and with complete confidence, and the appearance of the hatching is unified in the forms and in the backgrounds. In other words, the hatching is organic. In Melzi's drawing, the lines look instead forced and scratchy, and the patterns of the diagonal, parallel lines seem to change direction from passage to passage. Close-up, the overall appearance of the diagonal,