A Da Vinci find at the Louvre?
A curator at the Louvre in Paris has stumbled upon some unknown drawings on the back of a painting by Leonardo da Vinci that look like they might be by the Italian master himself, the museum said Thursday.
The extraordinary find was made by chance, when Louvre staff unhooked Leonardo’s “The Virgin and Child With Saint Anne” from the museum wall as part of a broad program of study and restoration of paintings by Leonardo.
“The Virgin and Child With Saint Anne” was painted in the early 1500s and no one had previously noticed the drawings -- at least not to the knowledge of the Louvre.
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