Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso) — Leonardo da Vinci, 1496

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso), Leonardo da Vinci

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Credit: Rogers Fund, 1917
Licence: CC0-1.0
Evidence: metmuseum.org collection api v1: isPublicDomain=true on object 339130 (read 2026-08-27)
Record: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/339130

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