(b. 1452, Vinci, d. 1519, Cloux, near Amboise)
Isabella d'Este
1500Black and red chalk, yellow pastel chalk on paper, 63 x 46 cm
Musée du Louvre, Paris
The cartoon shows the portrait of Isabella d'Este. Holes were made in it
so that it could be transferred, but these perforations do not match
all the details of the drawing precisely, in some places correcting them
with great sensitivity. Leonardo probably produced these perforations
himself. The cartoon has clearly been trimmed and is in a poor state of
preservation, so that it is no longer possibly to state with any
certainty whether the unusual colouring with coloured chalks was
produced by Leonardo himself.
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