Portraits of the Ladies: Leonardo's Most Famous Female Subjects
Ginevra de' Benci - c.1474-80 - Washington, National Gallery of Art
Lady with an ermine (Cecilia Gallerani) - c.1489-90 - Krakow, Czartoryski Museum
La belle ferronnière, c. 1490-97 - Paris, The Louvre
La bella principessa (Bianca Sforza --generally attributed to Leonardo--) - 1495-6 - Switzerland, Private collection
Mona Lisa - c.1503-16 - Paris, The Louvre
The pencil sketch drawn by Leonardo in Mantua in 1499 (currently at the Louvre - left) that was the apparent inspiration for the newly found painting portraying Isabella d'Este (right)
In light of the recent discovery of the Isabella D'Este portrait attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, we take a look at some of Leonardo's most famous colored portraits of women.
