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Italian School

16th century

Head of a Female Saint. Verso: Seated Virgin with Child

Black chalk, on blue paper; verso: black chalk.

12 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches (318 x 211 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1993.325

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Watermark: none.

Provenance:

Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (according to János Scholz); purchased in London in 1953 by János Scholz (1903-1993), New York (see Lugt Suppl. 2933b).

Associated names:

Lanino, Bernardino, approximately 1512-1583, Copy after.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Drawings from Lombardy and Adjacent Areas 1480-1620, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland; Los Angeles County Museum; H.M. DeYoung Museum, San Francisco; Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Seattle Museum of Art, 1956, no. 48, repr. frontispiece (recto) (Bernardino Lanino).
Giovanni Romano and Paola Astrua, eds., Bernardino Lanino, exh. cat., Museo Bogogna, Vercelli, 1985, p. 118 under no. 32 (Paola Astrua conflates the ex-Bick collection drawing with the Morgan version).
Robert Randolf Coleman, Bernardino Lanino and the Laninian Current in Sixteenth-Century Piedmontese-Lombard Painting, 5 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of Chicago, Chicago, 1988, vol. 3, pp. 852-53, fig. D45 (recto only) (close follower of Lanino, a skilled and sensitive replica of drawing of same subject formerly in Bick collection, Longmeadow, which is preparatory for the head of the Virgin in the Madonna delle Grazie, San Paolo, Vercelli, signed and dated 1568. Mentions two drawings in Turin as further copies after ex-Bick study, inv. 14646c and 16162 SM (the latter is bust-length though)).

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