Lot 12: Lelio Orsi (Reggio 1511-1587 Novellara)

The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist in a landscape
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) on brown paper
12 1/2 x 8 in. (316 x 205 mm.)

Antichità Viva, XII (1973), 5, p. 74.
D. Degrazia, Correggio and his legacy, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, and Parma, Galleria Nazionale, 1984, p. 254 (Italian edition p. 272), note 7 (as Manner of Bedoli, from a photograph).
E. Monducci et al., Lelio Orsi, exhib. cat., Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli, 1987, no. 113.

Fiorella Frisoni dates the present sheet to the 1570s, noting that it can be 'placed with absolute conviction among Lelio's works' (E. Monducci et al., op. cit., p. 133). Dr. Frisoni compares the drawing to a print by Hendrick van der Borcht in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna which appears to be after a drawing very similar to the present work and which is inscribed 'Lelio da novellare in. borcht fe' (E. Monducci et al., op. cit., fig. 113b).

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