Watermark: none.
Formerly attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari, Valduggia near Vercelli 1475/80-1546 Milan.
Inscribed on album page, at upper center, just above drawing, in pen and brown ink, "Lanino. O."; to the right of this, in graphite, "21"; on separate piece of paper pasted onto verso of album page, in pen and brown ink, "16".
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.
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 50.
Selected references: Rodolfo 1927, 10; Oakland and elsewhere 1956, no. 46; Cologne 1963-64, no. 83; Notre Dame 1967, no. 20; London and elsewhere 1968, no. 54; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 72; Fellows Report 7 1976, 163; Vercelli 1985, 19-21; Romano et al. 1986, 287, 289; Austin and elsewhere 1988-89, no. 35; Coleman 1988, 3:650-51; Tordella 1996, 25n65.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 163.
G. Rodolfo, Disegni di Gaudenzio Ferrari e Bernardino Lanino, Carmagnola, 1927, pl. xx (as Lanino)
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. 69, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibitions)