The charcoal preparatory work for a painting of a semi-nude woman, held at the Conde Museum at Chantilly north of Paris, may now have to be reclassified.
The Monna Vanna, better known as the Nude Mona Lisa, designed by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci after the Mona Lisa, pictured at the Domaine de Chantilly.
But the charcoal preparatory work for a painting of a semi-nude woman, held at the Conde Museum at Chantilly north of Paris, may now have to be reclassified. The large drawing has been held since 1862 in the huge collection of Renaissance art at the Conde Museum, once the home of one of France's oldest noble families.
But he was thrown by"hatching on the top of the drawing near the head done by a right-handed person".
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