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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

Maximum print size

12.2 × 14.2 cm · 4.8 × 5.6 in

at 300 DPI from the 1,430 × 1,692 px original. Too small for a standard frame at full quality. Best viewed on screen.

Frame: 20.3 × 25.4 cm · 8.0 × 10.0 in
Mat opening: 12.2 × 14.2 cm · 4.8 × 5.6 in
Mat border, sides: 4.1 cm · 1.6 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 5.6 cm · 2.2 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1480–85
Medium: 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)
Type: Drawings
Size: 19.3 × 16.2 cm · 7.6 × 6.4 in
Orientation: portrait
Subjects: Christ, Saint John the Baptist, Virgin Mary
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗