The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci · 1510–13 · Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing lines in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo)
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About this picture
The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1510–13. Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing lines in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo). The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right” (1510–13) belongs with Leonardo’s notebooks more than with his few paintings: a figure, a plant, water, or a machine, drawn so the idea stays visible.
About the artist
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a Florentine painter whose notebooks mix figure studies, machines, water, and plants. Few paintings survive; the drawings are where most of the thinking is visible.
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