Two grotesque heads: a woman wearing a conical headdress and a caricature of Dante

Details

After Leonardo da Vinci
Two grotesque heads: a woman wearing a conical headdress and a caricature of Dante
pen and brown ink, unidentified watermark device
5½ x 5½ in. (13.9 x 13.9 cm.), unframed

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, 19-20 June 1967, lot 876.

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Lot Essay

A copy after the lower half of a sheet by Francesco Melzi at Windsor, itself after a lost original by Leonardo (K. Clark, The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1969, I, p. 83, no. 12493, II, fig. 12493).

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