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Giampietrino
16th century
Virgin and Child. Verso: Study for Head of Child
Black chalk, with white chalk, on paper; inscribed with stylus ; verso: black chalk.
12 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (327 x 235 mm)
Gift of Janos Scholz.
1985.88
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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.
Inscription:
Inscribed on piece of paper presumably removed from verso of drawing, and now in departmental files, in graphite, "by(?)Luini".
Provenance:
Purchased in Zurich in 1950 by Janos Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).
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.
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