A Bear Walking
Leonardo da Vinci · ca. 1482–85 · silverpoint on light buff prepared paper
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
A Bear Walking is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated ca. 1482–85. Silverpoint on light buff prepared paper. The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“A Bear Walking” (ca. 1482–85) 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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