The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
1515 - 1517. Oil on panel.Room 052C
Leonardo made three cartoons (full-scale drawings) with different ideas for the composition of his Saint Anne. This work is one of the few preserved testimonies to the second, produced by the master before his departure for Milan in 1508 and very close to the definitive version, although the scene is inverted. Another version of this picture was lost during the Second World War.