La Bella Principessa. Arguments against the Attribution to Leonardo
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The sensational attribution of an anonymous profile drawing of a young girl, called La Bella Principessa, to Leonardo da Vinci, which was reported in the press worldwide, makes an inter-esting case of contemporary connoisseurship. The drawing was executed in the mixed media technique of pen and brown ink, black, red and white chalks (or trois crayons), and body colour, on vellum laid on oak panel, 33 × 23.9 cm [Fig. 1].1 Cutting-ed ...