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Virgin and Child. Verso: Study for Head of Child

Giampietrino
16th century

Virgin and Child. Verso: Study for Head of Child

12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (327 x 235 mm)
Black chalk, with white chalk, on paper; inscribed with stylus ; verso: black chalk.
1985.88

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
The composition is probably based on a sketch of the Madonna with St. Anne in the Louvre, as pointed out by David Brown.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on piece of paper presumably removed from verso of drawing, and now in departmental files, in graphite, "by(?)Luini".
Associated names
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of Janos Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 64, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 367.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department