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The Virgin of the Rocks (French: La Vierge aux rochers - Italian: La Vergine delle Rocce), sometimes called The Virgin, the Child Jesus, Saint John the Baptist and an Angel, is a painting by the artist Leonardo da Vinci, painted between 1483 and 1486. This work bears the same name as another version also painted by Leonardo da Vinci and is intended to occupy the central part of the altarpiece of the Immaculate Conception, which has now disappeared. This version was rejected by the sponsor: the Milanese secular brotherhood of the Immaculate Conception, which came from the Franciscan order. According to the most common hypotheses, this work was sold by Leonardo da Vinci to Ludovico the More and ...

1483 - 1486
Bois transposé sur toile en 1806 par hacquin
1.99 x 1.22m
INV777
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Louvre
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