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By Adam Schrader, October 24, 2023
The Paris Administrative Court has ordered France’s Culture Ministry to issue an export certificate to allow a drawing attributed to Leonardo da Vinci to leave the country after a yearslong dispute.
The drawing, Study for a Saint Sebastian in a Landscape, was made on a double-sided sheet and depicts the martyred Saint Sebastian tied to a tree in a landscape on the front and contains notes and diagrams about light and shadow, relating to da Vinci’s study of optics, on the back.