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Two horsemen Leonardo da Vinci (draughtsman)
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Title/s	Two horsemen
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	metalpoint, reinforced with pen and brown ink, on a pinkish prepared surface
Dimensions	height: 143 mm width: 128 mm
Date	after 1481
Provenance	bequeathed: Clarke, Louis Colville Gray 1961 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2092); Jonathan Richardson Sr (Lugt 2183); George Hibbert; the Hon. A. Holland-Hibbert, his sale, Sotheby's, 29 June 1926, lot 17; 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.
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Documentation	Moller, E. [Unknown; Burlington Magazine; XLVII; Moller], Source title: Burlington Magazine (1925) [comments: Facing p. 275.] (1926-1952) Disegni di Leonardo da Vinci, Rome [comments: No.159.] Bodmer, H. (1931) Leonardo da Vinci, Stuttgart [page: 48] Source title: Klassiker der Kunst ( Berenson, Bernard (1938) Drawings of the Florentine Painters, Chicago: University of Chicago Press [page: 115] [comments: 1044 D.] Popham, Arthur Ewart (1946) The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, London? [page: 72] [comments: No. 65, pl. 65.] Clarke, Kenneth (1952) Leonardo da Vinci: an account of his development as an artist, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 29] [comments: Pl .13.] Winzinger, Franz 'Dürer und Leonardo', [page: 4] Source title: Pantheon (1970) [comments: Fig.1.] Pedretti, Carlo 'Reconstruction of a Leonardo Drawing', : Master Drawings Association, Inc. [page: 152] Source title: Master Drawings (1978) [comments: Reproduced.]
Material/s	metal points (medium) brown ink (medium) pink wash (medium) prepared paper (support)
Accession Number	PD.121-1961 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 7505; Input Date: 2000-06-15 / Last Edit: 2011-04-08)
Related Object	PD.44-1999 - A rider on a rearing horse

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Two horsemen

Leonardo da Vinci (draughtsman)