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LEONARDO DA VINCI (VINCI 1452-AMBOISE 1519)

A rearing horse, and a horse's hind leg

c.1480

RCIN 912315

The drawing is probably a study for Leonardo’s unfinished painting of the Adoration of the Magi, now in the Uffizi, Florence. For the crowded composition Leonardo made many drawings of animals: oxen, asses, horses, and even a camel. This study demonstrates close examination of the anatomy of the horse, with the skin both stretched and bunched over the tensed muscles of the shoulder and neck.
  • stamp, ER VII, crowned, in oval: Lugt 901


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