Lot 6: Bernardino Lanino (Vercelli circa 1509-after 1581 Milan)

Bernardino Lanino (Vercelli circa 1509-after 1581 Milan)
The head of the Virgin
black and white chalk, stumping, on blue paper
12¾ x 8 5/8 in. (32.4 x 22.1 cm.)

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings: Form and Function, 1974, no. 1 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari).

P. Astura and G. Romano, Bernardino Lanino, exhib. cat., Vercelli, Museo Borgogna, 1985, pp. 117-18, under no. 32, fig. 32a (as workshop and conflated with the Morgan version).
R.R. Coleman, Bernardino Lanino and the Laninian Current in Sixteenth-Century Piedmontese-Lombard Painting, Ph.D diss., University of Chicago, 1988, III, 'Catalogue of drawings by Bernardino Lanino', pp. 624-26, fig. D21.

Biblioteca Reale, Turin (according to the Paul Drey Gallery).
J.P. Durand-Matthiesen, Geneva, by 1956 (according to Janos Scholz's notes at the Morgan Library).
with the Paul Drey Gallery, New York, from whom acquired in 1973 by
Dr and Mrs Malcolm W. Bick, Longmeadow, Mass.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, New York, 16 January 1985, lot 146 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari).
with Colnaghi, New York, 1986, where acquired by the present owner.

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Bernardino Lanino (Vercelli circa 1509-after 1581 Milan)
The head of the Virgin
black and white chalk, stumping, on blue paper
12¾ x 8 5/8 in. (32.4 x 22.1 cm.)