LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519

Leonardo da VINCI Vinci, 1452–Amboise, 1519 Jabach XIII Drapery Study for a Seated Figure Distemper on linen About 1475–1482 Department of Prints and Drawings, Musée du Louvre, Paris, RF 41905 Leonardo da VINCI Vinci, 1452–Amboise, 1519 Jabach XIIII Drapery Study for a Seated Figure Distemper on linen About 1475–1482 The drapery studies, most of which belonged to the collector Everhard Jabach, were associated from the 18th century onwards with a passage from the Life of Leonardo da Vinci in the second edition of Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects, published in 1568. Vasari describes the specific technique used by Leonardo, which consisted of modelling clay figures and covering them with cloth dipped in clay. Fondation Custodia, Paris, inv. 6632 0 11 0 12