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The Virgin and Child

Leonardo da Vinci is one of the most emulated and copied painters in history, and many artists have tried to reproduce his painting style. Most of them, like the artist who made this painting, did not come anywhere close to matching his skill. Paintings like this fulfilled a demand for pictures in Leonardo's style, especially in Milan after his departure in 1513, which is around the time this work was made.

The multiple supple folds of the draperies, the muted colours and the generally dark atmosphere from which the figures seem to emerge reflect Leonardo's works of the early years of the sixteenth century. The composition, however, is most closely based upon a picture made by Leonardo in the ...

after 1510
Oil on wood
59.7 x 43.8cm
NG1300
Image and text © The National Gallery, London, 2024

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