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Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519

Anchiano, Italy

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• Renaissance
• Surrealism

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Roads

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1961

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On Being a Cartoonist

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1946

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Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1936–1937

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Movement

Renaissance

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Painting

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago National Gallery of Art

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Artworks (19)

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Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (from Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum)

1786 · Aquatint and etching

Plate: 7 7/8 x 6 5/16 in. (20 x 16 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

1510 · 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)

Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

1510 · 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)

Sheet: 8 x 6 1/8 in. (20.3 x 15.6 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Divine Proportion

1509 · Letterpress and woodcut in black with hand lettering in red ink, on ivory laid paper; binding in full buckram bookcloth

29.7 × 20.4 × 3.2 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 × 1 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Studies for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View, Male Nude Unsheathing a Sword, and the Movements of Water (recto); Study for Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (verso)

1501 · Pen and brown ink; soft black chalk or charcoal (recto); soft black chalk or charcoal (verso)

5-3/8 x 5-1/2 in. (13.7 x 14 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Right

1500 · Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened)

(irregular): 3 5/8 × 2 1/8 in. (9.2 × 5.4 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

1496 · Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)

7 15/16 x 5 1/4in. (20.2 x 13.3cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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

1496 · Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)

7 15/16 x 5 1/4in. (20.2 x 13.3cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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National Gallery of Art

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Auction house

Christie's

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Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Roads

New York · 1961

Group Exhibition On Being a Cartoonist

New York · 1946

Group Exhibition Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

New York · 1936