Print of Leonardo da Vinci - Cartoon of Sant'Anna or Sant'Anna, Madonna, Child and San Giovannino - 1501-1505
Leonardo da Vinci - The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
Year: 1499 - black chalk, white lead and smudge on paper 104.6x141.5 cm
Preserved at: National Gallery, London, England.
The Cartoon of Sant'Anna (Sant'Anna, the Madonna, the Child and San Giovannino) is a drawing made by Leonardo da Vinci during his stay in Florence, dating from 1501-1505.
The subject, which Leonardo should later have painted on an altarpiece, had a great reputation among his contemporaries, as Vasari tells us: "Finally he made a cartoon inside a Our Woman and a S. Anna, with a Christ, the which did not even surprise all the craftsmen, but when she was finished, it lasted two days in the room to go and see the men and women, the young and the old, how to go to solemn feasts, to see the marvels of Lionardo, which amazed all that people. "
