Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
unknown (German School)
Basic information
- ID
- Ж-477
- Author
- unknown (German School)
- Name
- Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
- Technique
- oil painting
- Material
- wood oil
- Dimensions (height x width, cm)
- 21.5 x 17.6
Additionally
- Type
- painting
- Genre
- portraiture
- Plot
- Portrait
- Provenance
- Collection of Lviv City Gallery
- Exposition
- Potocki Palace
Information about author
Object description
The painting depicts a bust-length portrait of a man turned three-quarters towards the viewer on an oval green background. His gaze is directed at the viewer. The man has a long moustache and a thick beard down to his chest. He wears a black beret on his head. The painting entered the Gallery's collection as the "Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci" by an unknown artist of the German School of Painting. The work is a copy of the famous self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), preserved in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. As the demand for collecting grew, artists became more skilled at producing high-quality copies of original works for the lucrative market. This was mostly an attempt to present their works as "good copies" of original but unavailable artworks. Details were frequently added deliberately to distinguish the copies from the original. The intention was to leverage one's skills to create something new, a work in the style of the original. Over time, these "copies" earned respect and became collectors' items on their own.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
