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

Date

1480–85

Type

Drawing

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)

Department

Drawings and Prints

Institution

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Object number

17.142.1

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1917