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Leonardo Cartoon
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(c.1498, National Gallery) The name commonly given in Britain to a full-scale preparatory drawing (or cartoon) by *Leonardo da Vinci, which shows the Virgin with the Child on her knee, her mother St Anne behind her, and the infant John the Baptist to one side. It is believed to be an early preparation for a similar painting in the Louvre. The cartoon was bought in 1962, with the help of a public appeal, and was damaged in the area of the Virgin's breast when a man fired a shotgun at it in 1987. It has since been most expertly restored.
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