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)

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Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise)
Date: 1480–85
Medium: 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)
Dimensions: 7 5/8 x 6 3/8 in. (19.3 x 16.2 cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Rogers Fund, 1917
Accession no.: 17.142.1

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
Leonardo da Vinci
1510–13 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00019357
Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left
Leonardo da Vinci
1490–94 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020087
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci
1496 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020088
A Bear Walking
Leonardo da Vinci
ca. 1482–85 · Drawing
Public collection via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00023686

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.