LIPPI, Filippino
(b. ca. 1457, Prato, d. 1504, Firenze)

Head of an Elderly Man Wearing a Cap

c. 1495
Metalpoint on bluish gray prepared paper, heightened with white, 190 x 140 mm
Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth

This drawing by Filippino Lippi, formerly attributed to Lorenzo di Credi, probably depicts the sculptor Mino da Fiesole. The woodcut showing the sculptor in the second edition of Vasari's Lives (1568) was based on this drawing.