© National Gallery, London
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
Leonardo da Vinci
- Art Funded
- 1962
- Dimensions
- 141.5 x 104.6 cm
- Vendor
- Royal Academy
The cartoon may have been intended as the design for a picture but it was never pricked for transfer to canvas.
Leonardo repeated the theme of the Virgin and St. Anne with the Holy Children in a cartoon the following year, and then began a picture for Louis XII of France which now hangs in the Louvre and was unfinished at Leonardo's death. Presented by the Art Fund following a public campaign.
Provenance
Inherited by Francesco da Melzi; apparently in Milan until its appearance in the Sagrado collection, Venice, before 1726; collection of Robert Udny; Royal Academy.