Lot 94: Attributed to Pier Francesco Mazzucchelli, il Morazzone (Morazzone 1573-1626)

The Piet… oil on slate 13 7/8 x 91/4 in. (45.3 x 23.5 cm.) in a carved and gilded 17th Century Italian frame PROVENANCE M.J.B. Jungmann, The Netherlands, 1924 (according to a letter glued to the reverse dated 19 April 1924 by Bredius). Anon. Sale, Christie's, London, 26 July 1968, lot 14 (180 gns. to O. Poggi). NOTES Elements of the composition - in particular the torso and arms of the Virgin and of the dead Christ - were taken up by one of the foremost of Morazzone's followers, Isidoro Bianchi (1602-1690) in an altarpiece of The Lamentation with a Bishop Saint and Saint Charles Borromeo, a preparatory drawing for which was sold in these Rooms, 18 April 1989, lot 24.