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3-9-2019 The sculpture has been in London's Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum since 1858 but had been credited to another artist, Antonio Rossellino, according to Francesco Caglioti, the Italian academic who is leading the new attribution. Late art historian and British Museum director John Pope-Hennessy pronounced that the sculpture was by Rossellino, but he had no real evidence for his ruling, claimed Caglioti.
They focus on two crucial details: First, the voluminous, complicated draperies that flow over the Madonna's legs are similar to drawings of draperies da Vinci was making at the time, Bambach said. Second, there's the face of baby Jesus Christ and his realistic, well-observed pose. He looks alive. That same attention to young children's actual behaviour can be seen in da Vinci's drawings, the scholar added. Revered da Vinci scholar Carmen C Bambach, from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has also supported the claim, said the report.
(The terracotta is thought by some to have been made by 19 or 20 year old da Vinci, c. 1472, when he was an apprentice of Verrocchio at Florence.)
https://www.indulgexpress.com/culture/art/2019/mar/09/the-virgin-with-the-laughing-child-leonardo-da-vincis-only-surviving-sculpture-unveiled-13331.html
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2-8-2019
"There are about a thousand details that dispel any doubts about attributing the statue to Leonardo." Said the professor in an Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Comparing the characteristic features of the sculpture with the characteristics of Leonardo's painting of Saint Anna in 1503, Cogliati drew attention to the fact that the smile was similar in both works. He added that Leonardo's technique for staining fabrics was a key factor. “Let's look at the Madonna's dress and the red cloak of Annunciation (Annunciation) painted by Leonardo in 1472-75. The same technique for shrinking materials ” he said. The question of whether the curators of the London Museum agree with his findings, he said, "he does not know but hopes". The statue of 1465 is attributed to Antonio Rossellino in the museum's collection. The spokesman for the London institution said that the early history of the statue is unknown and has been attributed to Rossellino, Leonardo, Verrocchio and Desiderio da Settignano for many years, but none of the assumptions are generally accepted. “It was first in 1899 that perhaps the work of Leonardo, and thus of Professor Caglioti, again opened up the debate on the creator. V&A welcomes the worldwide discussion with colleagues: ongoing research on our collection is ongoing ” he added. The museum acquired the work in 1858, which has never left the institution ever since. Other Leonardo experts are skeptical about the idea. “There is no statue that Leonardo would have made, so there is no basis for comparison. And the smile. Already Ernst Gombrich (the author of the world-famous book of art history) said that the Leonardo-type smile was an item inherited from Leonardo Verrocchio. But we welcome any new opinion if there is evidence to support it ,” said Frank Zollner, professor at the University of Leipzig.
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