Bernardino Lanino (1510/5-1583)

The Madonna and Child crowned by two angels

Details

Bernardino Lanino (1510/5-1583)
Lanino, B.
The Madonna and Child crowned by two angels
black chalk, brush and brown wash heightened with white, lightly squared in black chalk on blue paper
15 x 7 in. (382 x 193 mm.)

Provenance

Library of the Dukes of Savoy.
Abrate Collection.
Kurt Meissner (his mark, not in Lugt).
The British Rail Pension Fund.
with Succi Ltd.

Literature

G. Rodolfo, Disegni di Gaudenzio Ferrari e di Bernardino Lanino gi nella Galleria dei Duchi di Savoia di Torino, Carmagnola, 1927, probably no. 8.
P. Astrua and G. Romano, Bernardino Lanino, exhib. cat., Museo Borgogna, Vercelli, 1985, under no. 26.
A. Quazza, 'Repertorio delle opere di Bernardino Lanino' in Bernardino Lanino e il cinquecento a Vercelli, Turin, 1989, p. 289, illustrated.

Exhibited

Bremen, Kunsthalle, and Zurich, Kunsthaus, Alter Meister aus Schweitzer privatbesizt, 1967, no. 55, illustrated (as Gaudenzio Ferrari).
Stanford, University of Stanford, Detroit, Detroit Institute of Art, and New York, Finch College Museum, Old Master Drawings from the collection of Kurt Meissner, 1969, no. 20, illustrated (as Gaudenzio Ferrari).

Lot Essay

A drawing comparable in subject and technique is in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, E. Pagella and L. Piovano, 'Bernardino Lanino tra Manierismo e Conformit', op. cit., 1989, p. 164, illustrated. Other comparable drawings are in the Albertina, the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, the Uffizi, Florence, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, A. Quazza, op. cit., pp. 284-9, illustrated.
Lanino painted a number of pictures of the Madonna and Child enthroned, sometimes in the company of saints. The central section of a large altarpiece, dated 1565, showing a similar Madonna and Child seated under a curtain, is in Campiglia Cervo. Another, dated 1539, at Borgo Sessia shows the enthroned Madonna and Child with saints crowned by angels, as in the present drawing, P. Astruo e L. d'Agostino in 'Bernardino Lanino maestro a Vercelli: opere e committenti', op. cit., 1989, pp. 91 and 83, illustrated.