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| Keywords: Copy of the Mona Lisa - Walters 371158.jpg Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519 began a portrait of Lisa Gherardini about 1503 and then took with him to France selling it to the French king in 1516 During the centuries that it remained in the royal collection it was copied many times Some of the early copiests wanted to complete Leonardo's composition by introducing columns at the sides of the composition since in the original now in the Louvre Museum in Paris we can see indications of the base of columns along each side However extensive technical examinations of the Louvre's panel and the paint along its edges have conclusively demonstrated that the painting was not cut down and therefore there were never columns along the side edges So later copiests were trying to improve on what they saw The woman is depicted with sfumato a technique invented by Leonardo and based on his study of nature and in which transitions from light to shade are almost invisibly rendered This makes contours appear soft and blurred as if affected by atmospheric haze The copyist has tried to imitate this effect but without the subtlety of the original ca 1635 1660 Baroque Oil on canvas cm 79 3 63 5 ; Framed cm 100 33 81 92 10 16 accession number 37 1158 6356 Lady Louisa Ashburton Kent House Knightsbridge Ashburton Sale Christie's London July 8 1905 lot no 17 Henry Walters Baltimore before 1909 mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters before 1909 Undercover Stories in Art The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1980 Artful Deception The Craft of the Forger The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore; Edsel Eleanor Ford House Grosse Pointe Shores; Dallas Museum of Art Dallas; Oklahoma City Museum of Art Oklahoma City; Portland Museum of Art Portland; The Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood Nashville; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix; Columbia Museum of Art Columbia; Elvehjem Museum of Art Madison; Crocker Art Museum Sacramento; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester Rochester; The Barnum Museum Bridgeport 1987-1992 Déjà Vu Revealing Repetition in French Masterpieces The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Phoenix Art Museum Phoenix 2007-2008 place of origin France Walters Art Museum license 2D Early replicas of Mona Lisa Renaissance portrait paintings in the Walters Art Museum Italian Renaissance paintings in the Walters Art Museum Paintings in the Walters Art Museum | ||||
