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OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.
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A design of Neptune drawn in his car by sea horses, attended by sea gods; made by him for his friend Antonio Segni[1].

Several anatomical drawings made from the life, many of which have been since collected into a volume, by his scholar Francesco Melzi[2].

A book of the Anatomy of man, mentioned by Vasari, p. 36, the drawings for which were made with the assistance of Marc Antonio della Torre, before noticed in the present life. It is probably the same with the preceding.

A beautiful and well-preserved study in red and black chalk, of the head of a Virgin, from which he afterwards painted a picture. This study was at one time in the celebrated Villa de Vecchietti, but afterwards, in consequence of a sale, passed into the hands of Sig. Ignazio Hugford[3].

Two heads of women in profile, little differing from each other, drawn in like manner in black and red chalk, bought at the same sale by Sig. Hugford, but now among the Elector Palatine’s collection of drawings[4].

A book of the Anatomy of a horse, mentioned by Vasari, p. 36, as a distinct work; but probably included in Leonardo’s manuscript collections. See the account before given of them.

Several designs by Leonardo were in the possession of Sig. Jabac, who seems to have been a collector of pictures, and to have bought up for the King of

  1. Du Fresne. Vasari, 28.
  2. Du Fresne.
  3. Additions to the Life in Vasari, 48.
  4. Ibid.
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