Lot 408: AURELIO LUINI

LUINO 1530 - 1593 MILAN A SEATED PROPHET, HOLDING A BOOK Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, irregular sheet, made up lower left and along right margin. 163 by 112 mm

Newcastle, 1974, no. 19

Sale, London, Christie's, 29 March 1966, lot 39 (as Palma Giovane), purchased by Ralph Holland

Stylistically this can be compared with a sheet of studies of Prophets at Windsor.1 The facial features and the manner in which the Prophet's head has been depicted here can also be compared with other pen and ink studies of a bearded man in Luini's drawing, Studies of the head of a bearded man and figures for a Lamentation, sold, London, Sotheby's, 2 July 1997, lot 43. 1. A.E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries...at Windsor Castle, London 1949, p. 242, no. 408, reproduced pl. 148