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Leonardo da Vinci

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Chalk drawing of a woman's head tilted down, eyes lowered, with soft wavy hair in shaded tones.

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

1510-13

Pen and ink sketches of a child reclining with a lamb, with mirrored handwritten notes along the top edge.

Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb (recto); Head of an Old Man, and Studies of Machinery (verso)

about 1503-1506

Pen and ink drawing on blue paper of a frowning bearded old man gesturing with one hand, wearing draped cloth.

Study for the Last Supper (Saint Peter?)

1493

A Dead or Moribund Man in Bust Length

1510

Circular watercolor and ink plan of a walled town with a grid of streets, a citadel and a river curving along its south side.

Plan of Imola

1502

Brown ink drawing of swirling floodwaters, collapsing cliffs and dark storm clouds with mirror script above.

A deluge

1517

Red chalk drawing of an elderly bearded man with long wavy hair, gazing to the side on aged paper.

presumed Self-portrait

1569

Profile of a Young Fiancée

1495

Pen sketch sheet with studies of the Virgin and Christ Child in arched niches, plus a perspective diagram and putti doodles.

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Dia…

1480

A Bear Walking

1482

Sketch of a young woman's head turned toward the viewer, with soft hatched shading on hair and face.

Study for the Head of a Girl

1483

Sheet of Studies [recto]

1470

Pen and brown ink drawing of a woman's head with lowered eyes and elaborate braided hair.

Head of Leda

1504

Pen and ink sketch of a rearing horse with a rider extending a baton, drawn on blue paper.

Study for the Sforza Monument

1485

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

1490-94

Pen sketch of a seated figure by a tree and water inside a circle, with mirror-script writing above on aged paper.

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)

1496

Heads of Horses and Unicorns

1530/40

Faint pencil sketch on aged paper of a seated Madonna with a child and loose drapery, drawn in several overlapping lines.

Study of a Madonna [verso]

probably 1470/1480

Grotesque Head of an Old Woman

1489/1490

Pen and ink study sheet with several horse legs and hooves drawn at different angles, shaded with hatching.

Sketches of Horses' (or Dromedaries') Legs (recto); Columns (verso)

c. 1530

Pen and brown ink drawing of two curly-haired putti embracing a lamb on toned paper.

Two Putti with Lamb

n.d.