Study: Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio

A study of a drawing by G. A. Boltraffio called Head of a youth with an ivy wreath.
Reference from Luke Syson with Larry Keith: Leonardo da Vinci - Painter at the Court of Milan. Published by National Gallery Company, London.

An excerpt from the book:
'Boltraffio's drawing is a direct citation - in reverse - of the head of Leonardo's Madonna in the National Gallery Virgin of the Rocks. This is a comparison that exemplifies the pupil's perfect imitatio of the master's art: faithful, yet with strong differences in their approach to nature.'



Tools
A5 sketchbook, off-white
Graphite pencils F, H, 2H
framed in Photoshop CS6

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