Leonardo da Vinci, The Head of the Virgin in Three Quarter View Facing Right, 1510-1513, 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), Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1951, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
HAPPY BIRHDAY, LEONAARDO DA VINCI
Title: The Head of the Virgin in Three Quarter View Facing Right, 1510-1513
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Works of art by the iconic Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci are rare. So the Metropolitan Museum of Art rightly treasures its priceless drawing of the Virgin, possibly a preliminary study for the painting Virgin and Child with Saint Anne presently at the National Gallery of Art in London. For few artists can rival the ethereal beauty expressed in the Virgin’s face–the delicate smile and lovely eyes framed by the flowing texture of her hair.
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