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Attributed to Bernardino Lanino
ca. 1512-1583
Adoration of the Magi. Verso: Reclining Figure with Left Arm Raised
1546-1553
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; accretions of pink paint at center; verso: black chalk.
10 13/16 x 8 1/16 inches (275 x 205 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1988.6
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Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for Lanino's fresco for the Capella di San Giuseppe in the Duomo of Novara, now detached and placed in the lower sacristy.
Formerly attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari.
Inscription:
Inscribed on verso, in lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, "85 (or 58)".
Provenance:
Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (Lugt S. 47a); Durand Matthiesen Galleries, Geneva; purchased in Geneva in 1953 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
Associated names:
Ferrari, Gaudenzio, approximately 1470-1546, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography:
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. 7l.
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