Live Auction 5979Old Master, 19th Century and British Drawings and Watercolours
Christie’s roundel
Lot 503

After Leonardo da Vinci

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

Closed9 July 2009

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GBP 1,625

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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

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

Specialist note

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).