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Adoration of the Magi. Verso: Reclining Figure with Left Arm Raised

Attributed to Bernardino Lanino
ca. 1512-1583

Adoration of the Magi. Verso: Reclining Figure with Left Arm Raised

1546-1553
10 13/16 x 8 1/16 inches (275 x 205 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, with white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper; accretions of pink paint at center; verso: black chalk.
1988.6

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Preparatory design for Lanino's fresco for the Capella di San Giuseppe in the Duomo of Novara, now detached and placed in the lower sacristy.
Formerly attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed on verso, in lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, "85 (or 58)".
Associated names
Ferrari, Gaudenzio, approximately 1470-1546, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 7l.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department