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Leonardo da Vinci’s legend hardly needs burnishing, but a new book may add yet another credit to his resume. “Leonardo da Vinci: The Origins of a Genius,” by David Alan Brown, asserts that the young artist worked on Andrea del Verrocchio’s “Tobias and the Angel,” which is at London’s National Gallery. He says he has strong evidence of Leonardo’s brush strokes on the figure of Tobias and on a dog and a fish. Brown, curator of Italian Renaissance painting at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, says “Tobias” would effectively be Leonardo’s first painting. The book is to be published next month by Yale University Press.
