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Heck. No pic of the copy at the linked article.
Maybe the copying artist wanted it to have brighter colors.
THE ONE AND ONLY!......
She must have been some woman.
Most of da Vinci's original cartoons for the Last Supper were left to his students - most to one in particular.
These 'cartoons' - as well as one of "Mona" - still exist and are in the private collection of Queen Elizabeth.
This is purported to be his 'cartoon' for "Mona"
I find the faint outline of a plant in her hands interesting. Mary Magdalene was known to've been painted with a certain plant in reference to her daughter - a 'code' for those who had eyes to see.
His original "Last Supper" shows an unmistakable FEMALE on the right hand of Jesus - The painting we look at in Milan as the last supper has gone through so much devastation - both deliberate and from horrendous attempts at restoration, from Napoleon's troops, from WW11 bombing and years open to the weather - that it is but a hint of the original. However, copies done - one in the time of - or shortly after - the life of daVinci, almost certainly done by one or more of his students, who had the original cartoons and probably worked on the original - (that started disintegrating almost before it was finished, sue to moisture....) anyway, these copies (the Old Masters often did copies of their paintings) - that survive, retain the true colors and faces of the original.
They also show that the figure on Jesus's right side looks a heckeva more female than male - I can't post the pic here as I don't have it in html format -