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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–1519, Musée du Louvre, Paris
Madonna and Child

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne

Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519)

c. 1503–1519 · huile sur bois (peuplier) (oil on wood (poplar)) · Musée du Louvre, Paris

For Saints Joachim and Anne · 26 July

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image 18×23.2 in on a 18×24 in sheet

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About this painting

The Child has an arm round a lamb's neck and a leg thrown over its back, and Our Lady, half rising from Saint Anne's lap, reaches to draw Him away. Anne only smiles down. In 1501 Fra Pietro da Novellara described this very group to Isabella d'Este: the Child taking hold of a lamb, a sacrificial animal signifying the Passion, and His Mother rising to separate them. Saint Anne is not in the New Testament; she comes from the Protevangelium of James, a later second-century text the Church never canonised. Leonardo kept the work, unfinished, until his death. The Child holds on to the lamb.

Sources: Musée du Louvre, INV 776 ; MR 319 · Fra Pietro da Novellara to Isabella d'Este, 3 April 1501 (Villata, no. 150, 134–35) · e-Clavis: Christian Apocrypha, North American Society for the Study of Christian Apocrypha · Charles Nicholl, Leonardo: Flights of the Mind

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The Record
Date c. 1503–1519
Collection Musée du Louvre, Paris
Subject Madonna and Child
Season Ordinary Time
Master 18,032 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Musée du Louvre, Paris · INV 776; MR 319

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Léonard de Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, dit Leonardo da Vinci) (Vinci [Florence], 1452 - Amboise, 1519), École italienne
Date 1er quart du XVIe siècle (vers 1503 - 1519)
Medium huile sur bois (peuplier) (oil on wood (poplar))
Dimensions Hauteur : 1,68 m ; Largeur : 1,13 m (agrandi plus tard : 1,3 m actuellement)
Holding Musée du Louvre, Paris · INV 776; MR 319

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source La Vierge, l'Enfant Jésus et sainte Anne, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF.jpg
Master 18,032 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistLeonardo da Vinci (Italian, 1452–1519)
Datec. 1503–1519
MuseumMusée du Louvre, Paris
AccessionINV 776; MR 319
Mediumhuile sur bois (peuplier) (oil on wood (poplar))
DimensionsHauteur : 1,68 m ; Largeur : 1,13 m (agrandi plus tard : 1,3 m actuellement)
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in
Provenance of the file
Held byMusée du Louvre, Paris · INV 776; MR 319 the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · La Vierge, l'Enfant Jésus et sainte Anne, by Leonardo da Vinci, from C2RMF.jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master13,972 × 18,032 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 18×24 in · image 18×23.2 in · archival margin · 776 dpi
24×36 in sheet 24×36 in · image 24×31 in · archival margin · 582 dpi
32×48 in sheet 32×48 in · image 32×41.3 in · archival margin · 437 dpi
40×60 in sheet 40×60 in · image 40×51.6 in · archival margin · 349 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 18,032 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.