The Faculty of Fine Arts in Porto lends Da Vinci work of art to the Louvre Museum in Paris this fall

The Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto (FBAUP) will lend its Leonardo Da Vinci drawing to the Louvre Museum, in Paris, to the fall exhibition marking 500 years of Da Vinci's death.

The drawing is in The Netherlands and it is soon to be lent to the Louvre, in the fall, according to FBAUP's Director, Lúcia Almeida Matos, in a statement to News Agency Lusa, in the context of the national and international loans of the Faculty's art collection.

The drawing "Young woman washing the feet of a toddler" by Leonardo Da Vinci will be part of the exhibition that will inaugurate in the fall of 2019 in the world's most visited museum.

The first acknowledgement of this drawing as a Da Vinci drawing was suggested in 1965 by British art historian and curator Philip Pouncey, which was later confirmed in 1977, when the original drawing was examined in Porto, according to the description of the drawing's provenance in the thematic repository of the University of Porto.

Later on, art historian and Da Vinci's analyst expert, Carlo Pedretti suggested that "the drawing from Porto and the correlated British Museum drawings dated c. 1483, shortly after Leonardo's moving to Milan".

"The exhibition will include a large selection of drawings and a small but significant group of paintings and sculptures that will provide some tangible context", as stated in the Louvre's website.