Drawing preserved in the uffizi under number 209, executed in pencil and watercolor but heavily retouched almost everywhere by a 16th century hand. It was identified by father sebastiano resta (17th century) as a portrait of beatrice d'este and attributed to leonardo da vinci. Karl morgenstern (1813) and other critics noted similarities with the belle ferronnière, as did dalli regoli (1985), who considered the drawing to be a copy from a lost original by leonardo and added a certain resemblance to the bust in the louvre. Lionello venturi (1925) rejected the leonardo attribution and instead proposed the name boccaccio boccaccino. [1]. Date: circa 1495.
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