Modesta e Vanita by Leonardo da Vinci
Category
Photographs
Date
1851 - 1870
Materials
Paper
Measurements
200 x 188 mm
Order this imageCollection
Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520700.17
Summary
An albumen print photograph of a painting in portrait format. The painting is in a rectangular frame and mounted on a paper page within an album. The painting shows two young females meant to reptresent modesty and vanity. The painting is the Modestia e Vanita by Leonardo da Vinci. Printed on the portrait in th bottom roight is "Rocchi dis". Printed on the print at the bottom is "775 MODESTIA E VANITA LEONARDO DA VINCI (Pal. Sciarra)".
Provenance
Part of The Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986