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)

Leonardo da Vinci · Italian

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)

Classification: Drawings

Themes: Christ, Saint John the Baptist, Virgin Mary

Rogers Fund, 1917