Bernardino Lanino (circa 1512-1583)

Details

Bernardino Lanino (circa 1512-1583)

The Flagellation of Saint Catherine

black chalk, brown wash heightened with white, on blue paper, squared in red chalk, inscribed arch
508 x 370mm.

Provenance

Sabauda collection, Turin
Cavaliere Antonio Abrate, Turin sold in 1928
Durand-Matthiesen Galleries, Geneva
Matthiesen Galleries, London in the early 1950s

Literature

G. Rodolfo, Disegni di Gaudenzio Ferrari e di Bernardino Lanino, Carmagnola, 1927, p. 9 ('una santa, legata a una colonna e flagellata, che ricorda la scena di Santa Barbara, dipinta da Defendente Ferrari')

Lot Essay

Dr. Robert Randolf Coleman kindly proposed the attribution. He points out that it is a study for the fresco in the lost cycle in the Oratorio di Santa Caterina, Vercelli generally dated about 1555-60. A drawing of The Disputation of Saint Catherine related to the same cycle is in the Ashmolean, K.T. Parker, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings in the Ashmolean Museum, Italian Schools, Oxford, 1956, II, no. 228 (as Gaudenzio Ferrari).

The present drawing was part of an album belonging to the Sabauda family and subsequently Cavaliere Antonio Abrate of Turin. Dr. Coleman will publish the drawing in a forthcoming article on Lanino in Master Drawings

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