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Biagio Pupini dalle Lame (active 1511-1575)

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Biagio Pupini dalle Lame (active 1511-1575)

The Adoration of the Magi

with erased inscription lower right 'di Francesco...'; pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on light brown paper
8½ x 16¼in. (216 x 414mm.)

William, 2nd Duke of Devonshire (L. 718) and by descent.
Chatsworth, no. 44.
Trustees of the Chatsworth Settlement; Christie's, London, 3 July 1984, lot 38, illustrated (£17,280).

Specialist note

Traditionally attributed to Peruzzi, the present drawing was recognis ed as by Pupini in 1962. Similar drawings were published by E. Negro in Disegni Emiliani del Rinascimento, Bologna, 1989, pp. 81-7.