A painting of a woman holding flowers, attributed to Leonardo da Vinci and believed to be the origin of a sculpture attributed to R.C. Lucas. Process print with letterpress, 1909.

The sculpture, called Flora, was bought for the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, by the art expert Wilhelm von Bode in 1909, in the belief that it was a work by Leonardo da Vinci. The present article and illustrations aim to show that it was the work of the English sculptor Richard Cockle Lucas (1800-1883), who would have based it on the present painting. The painting was then in the possession of the dealer William Buchanan. At the time of this print, it belonged to a descendant of James Morrison, of Basildon Park, near Pangbourne