File:Leonardo da Vinci - Virgin and Child with Ss Anne and John the Baptist.jpg

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Summary

Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist

Artist



Alternative names	Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, Leonardo
Description	Italian painter, engineer, astronomer, philosopher, anatomist and mathematician
Date of birth/death	15 April 1452	2 May 1519
Location of birth/death	Anchiano	Clos Lucé
Work period	from 1466 until 1519 date QS:P,+1500-00-00T00:00:00Z/6,P580,+1466-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1519-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location	Florence (1466–1482), Milan (1483–1499), Mantua (1499), Venice (1500), Florence (1500–1506), Milan (1506–1513), Florence (1507–1508), Rome (1513–1516), Amboise (1513–1518)
Authority file	: Q762 VIAF: 24604287 ISNI: 000000012124423X ORCID: 0000-0002-3013-9914 ULAN: 500010879 LCCN: n79034525 WorldCat

Title

Maagd met het kind en Sint anne

Object type

drawing / cartoon

Genre

religious art

Description

Cartoon for a painting, drawing on paper

Depicted people

Date

between circa 1499 and circa 1500

Dimensions

height: 141.5 cm (55.7 in); width: 104.6 cm (41.1 in)

Collection

National Gallery

	Native name	National Gallery
	Parent institution	Board of Trustees of the National Gallery
	Location	London
	Coordinates	51° 30′ 32″ N, 0° 07′ 42″ W
	Established	1824
	Website	nationalgallery.org.uk
	Authority file	: Q180788 VIAF: 144868906 ISNI: 0000000406058908 ULAN: 500125190 LCCN: n80081622 NLA: 35311349 WorldCat

Current location

Room 2

Accession number

NG6337

Credit line

Purchased with a special grant and contributions from The Art Fund, The Pilgrim Trust, and through a public appeal organised by The Art Fund, 1962

References

Key facts, Leonardo da Vinci, The Leonardo Cartoon, NG6337, The National Gallery, London. Retrieved on 2010-02-20.

Source/Photographer

National Gallery collection

Other versions

Different tones
Detail of Child Jesus
Detail of Virgin Mary
Detail of st John the Baptist

Colour balance corrected. Uploaded by Leonnn 10:43, 15 December 2006 (UTC)


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File history

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	21:00, 24 March 2018	4,487 × 6,000 (13.58 MB)	Aavindraa	higher res, same source
	02:24, 27 January 2013	3,144 × 4,226 (8.93 MB)	Slick-o-bot	Bot: convert to a non-interlaced jpeg (see bug #17645)
	14:47, 8 June 2010	3,144 × 4,226 (6.5 MB)	Amandajm	Reverted to version as of 01:18, 28 May 2010. The changes were too intensely coloured and reduced detail. The softer version is by far the most accurate.
	06:27, 5 June 2010	3,144 × 4,226 (14.93 MB)	Aavindraa	unwarp, remove grayness, balance color
	01:18, 28 May 2010	3,144 × 4,226 (6.5 MB)	Olpl	Merged from fragments Help:Zoomable_images#National_Gallery_collection
	01:10, 16 December 2006	2,163 × 2,853 (4.94 MB)	Leonnn	== Summary == {{Information \|Description = The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist \|Source = [http://artrenewal.org ARC] \|Date = c.1499-1500 \|Author = Leonardo Da Vinci \|Permission = Public Domain }} Colour balance corrected. Uploaded