Bernardino Lanino

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Bernardino Lanino
approximately 1512-1583
Half-Length Figure of a Bearded Man Wearing a Turban
ca. 1550-1560
Black and white chalk, on blue paper; verso: traces of sketches in black chalk.
20 15/16 x 15 inches (529 x 381 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1983.33
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Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari, Valduggia near Vercelli 1475-80-1546 Milan.

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Inscribed on piece of paper pasted onto verso, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "Lanino.o"; on another piece of paper, at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "26".

Provenance: 
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a), by descent to Tommaso Alberto Vittorio di Savoia-Genova (1854-1931), 12th Duke of Genova, Turin; Antonio Abrate (1834-1925), Turin, by 1881; Ernesto Bertarelli (1873-1957), Milan; Francis Matthiesen (1898-1963), Geneva and London, by 1940; purchased in Milan in 1956 by Janos Scholz, New York (1903-1993; Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names: 

Ferrari, Gaudenzio, approximately 1470-1546, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Savoia-Genova, Tommaso di, 1854-1931, former owner.
Abrate, Antonio, 1834-1925, former owner.
Bertarelli, Ernesto, 1873- former owner.
Matthiesen, Francis, 1897-1963, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 51.
Selected references: Rodolfo 1927, 11; Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 31; Bloomington and elsewhere 1958, no. 24; Detroit 1960, no. 29; Staten Island 1961, no. 25; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 72; Romano et al. 1986, 287; Coleman 1988, 660-61; Tordella 1996, 25n65.
Mostra di Gaudenzio Ferrari, Museo Borgogna, Vercelli, 1956, no. 31.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 72, repr. (includes additional bibliography and exhibitions)
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 256.

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