La Belle Ferronnière
Leonardo da Vinci · 1495
Why it's great
A young woman in a red dress looks sideways with a calm, cool gaze, behind a stone ledge. Leonardo da Vinci painted this in about 1495, and the name refers to a mistaken story that she was the wife of an ironmonger.
Where to see it
📍 Louvre MuseumParis, France
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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor and scientist, born in 1452. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of notebook pages with drawings of flying machines, anatomy, water and plants. He died in France in 1519.
