FJK 074

Lanino Bernardino (Italian, Vercelli or Mortara 1509/13– 1582/83 Vercelli)

Head of an Old Bearded Man (St. Anthony Abbot?)

ca 1534
9 59/64 × 8 5/64 in. (252 × 205 mm)

Medium
Charcoal heightened with white chalk on bluish paper

Origin

Vittorio Amadeo I, duke of Savoy Collection
Dukes of Savoy Collection (Sabauda Collection)
Cavaliere Antonio Abrate Collection, Turin
Dr. C. R. Rudolf Collection, London (under Gaudenzio Ferrari)
Sale, Sotheby’s, London, July 8, 1998, no. 12 (under Gaudenzio Ferrari)
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 5592
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

ASTRUA Paola, ROMANO Giovanni, Bernardino Lanino, exh. cat. Vercelli, Museo Borgogna, 1985, mentioned under no. 29 (attributed to Lanino).

ROMANO Giovanni, Bernardino Lanino e il Cinquecento a Vercelli, Cassa di Risparmio di Torino, 1986, pp. 241, 285 (attributed to Lanino).

DÜCKERS Alexander, Linie, Licht und Schatten, Meisterzeichnungen und Skulpturen der Sammlung Jan und Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, Berlin: G & H Verlag, 1999, Catalogue raisonné, p. 408 ill.

Exhibitions

Venice, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, The Timeless Eye. Master Drawings from the Jan and Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski Collection, 1999, p. 64, no. 25, color ill. p. 65.

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Miradas sin Tiempo. Dibujos, Pinturas y Esculturas de la Coleccion Jan y Marie-Anne Krugier-Poniatowski, 2000, no. 32, p. 94, color ill. p. 95.

Notes

The present drawing came from an album, formerly with P. & D. Colnaghi, which was taken apart in the late 1950s. This album contained a number of drawings by both Gaudenzio and Lanino. 

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