Exposition : « Flora by Francesco Melzi. Conservation Completed », Hermitage Museum, Saint-Pétersbourg, jusqu’au 31 mars 2019
From 17 February 2019, following the completion of restoration work, the painting of Flora by Francesco Melzi (1493–1570) will be on display in the Apollo Hall of the Winter Palace. The Hermitage’s Flora was acquired in 1850 from the collection of King William II of the Netherlands as a work by Leonardo da Vinci, an attribution that had endured until the middle of the 19th century. Later it was ascribed to several pupils of the...
