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

Leonardo da Vinci · 1452–1519

Maximum print size

25.1 × 32.3 cm · 9.9 × 12.7 in

at 300 DPI from the 2,972 × 3,822 px original. Comfortably fills a standard 8×10 inch frame.

Frame: 40.6 × 50.8 cm · 16.0 × 20.0 in
Mat opening: 25.1 × 32.3 cm · 9.9 × 12.7 in
Mat border, sides: 7.9 cm · 3.1 in
Mat border, top and bottom: 9.4 cm · 3.7 in

Colour palette

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Details

Date: 1510–13
Medium: Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing outline in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo)
Type: Drawings
Size: 20.3 × 15.6 cm · 8.0 × 6.1 in
Orientation: portrait
Subjects: Heads, Profiles, Virgin Mary, Women
Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art ↗