Albert M. Shapiro

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Five sketches in brown ink are spaced around a vertically oriented sheet of paper. In the top left quadrant, a bearded man faces our right in profile. He has short, curly hair, a deeply lined face, a pronounced underbite, and the tip of his long nose points down. Two independent, wrinkle-lined eyes are sketched in the top right quadrant of the page. Below are two drawings of women with their shoulders angled away from us to the right. Near the bottom left and smaller in scale, a woman looks over her shoulder at us with a slight smile on her lips. In the bottom right quadrant, a woman with her hair pulled back under a snood looks to our right in profile with her chin tipped up. The neckline of both women’s bodices dip across the shoulder blades in the back. The paper is speckled with faint brown stains and spots.
Leonardo da Vinci, Sheet of Studies [recto], probably 1470/1480, pen and brown ink over leadpoint with blind stylus on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.a

Sheet of Studies [recto]

Leonardo da Vinci · probably 1470/1480 · pen and brown ink over leadpoint with blind stylus on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.2.a

A woman wearing a mantle, which drapes over her head and shoulders, and holding her hands together in prayer is lightly sketched in black chalk in this vertical drawing. Her body is angled to our left. Her head tips in that direction, and she looks off into the distance. Forms to the left of the woman are studies of a man’s torso and a muscular leg. The sketches are all faintly drawn on paper that now has some brown speckling.
Leonardo da Vinci, Study of a Madonna [verso], probably 1470/1480, black chalk on laid paper, The Armand Hammer Collection, 1991.217.2.b

Study of a Madonna [verso]

Leonardo da Vinci · probably 1470/1480 · black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.217.2.b