Can you identify Leonardo’s original among the many copies by his pupils and followers?  The painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is the centerpiece of the breathtaking, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition in Paris at the Louvre.

And the winner is… lower left!

Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c.1503-1519, oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris

Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1508-1513, oil on panel. University of California, Hammer Museum, Willitts J. Hole Art Collection, Los Angeles

Bernardino Lanino (attr.), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1543-1550, oil on panel. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Brera, Milan

Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci (Lombard artist around the beginning of the 16th century), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1508-1513, oil on panel, transferred to canvas. Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1514-1516?, oil on panel. Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Workshop of Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1508-1513, oil on panel. Private Collection, Paris

Here’s another version for you, in a far worse state of preservation.

Andrea Bianchi (called Vespino), The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c. 1611-1618, oil on canvas. Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Pinacoteca, Milan

The exhibition also provides the rare opportunity to see the closely related Burlington House Cartoon from the National Gallery London alongside Leonardo’s masterpiece from the Louvre.

  Leonardo da Vinci, The Burlington House Cartoon, c. 1499-1500, charcoal, black and white chalk on tinted paper mounted to canvas. National Gallery, London;  Leonardo da Vinci, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, c.1503-1519, oil on panel. Musée du Louvre, Paris