Archive, Fine Art

Louvre Museum Collection: Exposed the very first time masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Andrea del Sarto, Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo and Tiziano Vecelli

Louvre Museum: Department of the Collection of drawings — Isabelle d’Este and some other drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer, perfectly protected and guarded and never exposed to the public before, interpreted by Photographer Jean-Baptiste Huynh; in the realm of art as well as the treasures of the geniuses of art history - treasures of the heritage of France, masterpieces of Leonardo and Albrecht Dürer, fragile, not exposed, nor visible: The sublime portrait of Isabelle d'Este.

Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Oiseau dit casse-noix
blackink, watercolour, pen
13.9 x 21.7 cm.

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Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo (Italy, vers 1480/1485-vers 1548/1568)
Tête de vieillard
Black chalk, white highlights and stumping, on formerly blue paper
36,9 x 27 cm.

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Andrea del Sarto (Italy, 1486-1530)
Deux études de têtes d'homme, de face
signed 'andreas de Sarto Pittor Fiorentino' (lower right)
Sanguine. Annotation in pencil
33.5 x 26 cm.

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Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471-1528)
Presumed portrait of Bernard Van Orley
washed black stone in the bottom of the composition.
signed with the artist's monogram and dated 1521; on the top, inscription in pen and brown ink: 'eghen handt', on the back, another inscription: 'Mano propia ab Alberto Durero Norico'; watermark Briquet 10225.
40.3 x 27.5 cm.
painted in 1521

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