Artworks · Leonardo da Vinci

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

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

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

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

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

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

1490 · Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk

4 5/8 x 2 1/16in. (11.7 x 5.2cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left

1490 · Pen and brown ink, over soft black chalk

4 5/8 x 2 1/16in. (11.7 x 5.2cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Grotesque Head of an Old Woman

1489 · pen and brown ink on laid paper; laid down

overall: 6.4 x 5.1 cm (2 1/2 x 2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

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 · 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)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 · 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)

7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (19.3 x 16.2 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bear Walking

1477 · silverpoint on light buff prepared paper

4 1/16 x 5 1/4 in. (10.3 x 13.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Bear Walking

1477 · silverpoint on light buff prepared paper

4 1/16 x 5 1/4 in. (10.3 x 13.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Ginevra de' Benci [obverse]

1474 · oil on panel

overall (original panel only): 38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9/16 in.) overall (thickness of original panel): 1.1 cm (7/16 in.) overall (with addition at bottom edge): 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.) overall (thickness of addition at bottom edge): 1.9 cm (3/4 in.) framed: 59.7 x 57.8 x 3.8 cm (23 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse]

1474 · tempera on panel

overall (original panel only): 38.1 x 37 cm (15 x 14 9/16 in.) overall (thickness of original panel): 1.1 cm (7/16 in.) overall (with addition at bottom edge): 42.7 x 37 cm (16 13/16 x 14 9/16 in.) overall (thickness of addition at bottom edge): 1.9 cm (3/4 in.) framed: 59.7 x 57.8 x 3.8 cm (23 1/2 x 22 3/4 x 1 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Sheet of Studies [recto]

1470 · pen and brown ink over leadpoint with blind stylus on laid paper

overall: 16.4 x 13.9 cm (6 7/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study of a Madonna [verso]

1470 · black chalk on laid paper

overall: 16 x 13.5 cm (6 5/16 x 5 5/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art