Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

Leonardo da Vinci

1452-1519

Italianpainter, sculptor, architect, author, engineer, inventor, lutanist, mathematician and scientist

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)

1480-1485

19.3 x 16.2 cms | 7 ^1/2 x 6 ^1/4 ins
Silverpoint, partly reworked by the artist with pen and dark brown ink on pink prepared paper; lines ruled with metalpoint (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manhattan| United States