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Christ Child on the Lap of the Virgin. Verso: Fragmentary Sketch of Head and Shoulders of a Saint

Fra Paolino
1488-1547

Christ Child on the Lap of the Virgin. Verso: Fragmentary Sketch of Head and Shoulders of a Saint

4 1/2 x 4 inches (115 x 102 mm)
Black chalk, traces of white chalk, on brown paper; verso: black chalk.
1986.88

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none.
Possibly related to the figure of a woman in the lower right of the "Mater Misericordiae" of ca. 1515, Lucca, Pinacoteca.
Formerly attributed to Fra Bartolommeo, Florence 1472-1517 Florence.
Inscriptions/Markings
Illegible inscription on verso in pen and brown ink.
Associated names
Bartolomeo, fra, 1472-1517, Formerly attributed to.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Drawings from Tuscany and Umbria, 1350-1700. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, University of California Art Gallery, Berkeley. Berkeley : Gillick, 1961, no. 35.
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. 21, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twenty-First Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984-1986. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1989, p. 370.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department