Lot 6: Bernardino Lanino (c.1512-1583)

An Evangelist seated in a wooded landscape black chalk, brown wash heightened with white on blue paper, the upper corners cut 107/8 x 81/2 in. (275 x 215 mm.) PROVENANCE An Italian 17th Century collector, according to the inscription 'questo disegno mi fato donato a m giusto.mi' ( verso ). Duke Vittorio Amadeo I (d. 1637), and by descent in the Library of the Dukes of Savoy. Cavaliere Antonio Abrate, Turin. An unidentified collector's mark 'CL'. C.R. Rudolf; Sotheby's London, 21 May 1963, lot 7 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari). with P. & D. Colnaghi, 1963 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari). LITERATURE A. Quazza, 'Repertorio della opere di Bernardino Lanino, Bernardino Lanino e il cinquecento a Vercelli, Torino, 1986, p. 285. EXHIBITION London, The Arts Council, and elsewhere, Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf, 1962, no. 21, pl. 2 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari). NOTES Similar in handling to drawings of Saint George and the Dragon and God the Father with angels in the Ambrosiana, Milan (R. Sacchi, 'Bernardino Lanino in Lombardia' and E. Pagella and L. Piovano, 'Bernardino Lanino tra manierismo e Controriforma' in op. cit., pp. 142 and 169).