國立故宮博物院 National Palace Museum
(4) Perhaps because she is nude, this version was not shown… 更多 widely almost as though it were censored. But did Leonardo make the drawing? Did he create a simple sketch or a cartoon as a prototype? A finished painting or a sketched out painting that was then finished with the help of one of his followers? In this last instance, would the finished version be a known work or one that has not yet been identified? For example, the Nude Gioconda in the Hermitage in St. Petersburg or the Nude Gioconda in the McKenzie private collection or the Museo Ideale’s recently identified version?
The most immediate hypothesis is that Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as Salaì (1480-1523) painted it. Salai, Leonardo’s favorite pupil, would have, naturally, finished a composition by the master.