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Leonardo da Vinci

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right

1510–13
Black chalk, charcoal, and red chalk, with some traces of white chalk (?); some remains of framing outline in pen and brown ink at upper right (not by Leonardo)
20.3 × 15.6 cm (8 × 6.1 in)

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