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The ermine as a symbol of purity

Leonardo da Vinci (draughtsman)


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Title/s

The ermine as a symbol of purity


Maker/s

Leonardo da Vinci (draughtsman) [ULAN info: 1452-02.V.1519; Architect, Author, Engineer, Painter, Sculptor, Italia]

Category

drawing

Name

drawing

School/Style

Italian

Technique Description

pen and brown ink over slight traces of black chalk, on paper

Dimensions

diameter: 91 mm

Date

circa 1494

Provenance

bequeathed: Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1961 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints)

George Hibbert; the Hon. A. Holland-Hibbert, his sale, Sotheby's, 29 June 1926, lot 16, repr.; bought by Agnew for Charles B.O. Clarke, by whom bequeathed in 1935 to Grace Clarke; Louis C.G. Clarke, LL.D., by 1952

Bequeathed 1960.

Documentation

  1. Colvin, Sidney [Vasari Society, 1st Series, IX],
    Source title: Vasari Society (1913-14)
    [comments: No.3.]
  2. (1926-1952) Disegni di Leonardo da Vinci, Rome
    [comments: No. 107.]
  3. Bodmer, H. (1931) Leonardo da Vinci, Stuttgart [page: 232]
    Source title: Klassiker der Kunst, (
  4. Berenson, Bernard (1938) Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago: University of Chicago Press [page: 121]
    [comments: No. 1082 D.]
  5. MacCurdy, Edward (1938) The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, London?: Jonathan Cape [page: 474]
  6. Popham, Arthur Ewart (1946) The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, London? [page: 91]
    [comments: No. 109 A.]
  7. Heydenreich, L.H. (1954) Leonardo da Vinci, New York and Basel [page: 59]
  8. Heydenreich, L.H. (1954) Leonardo da Vinci, New York and Basel
    [comments: Pl. 62, fig 78.]

Material/s

brown ink (medium)
black chalk (medium)
paper (support)

Accession Number

PD.120-1961 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 7503; Input Date: 2000-06-15 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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