.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
The youngest son of the Milanese painter Bernardino Luini (d. 1532), Aurelio worked in his father’s tradition. Bernardino was a pupil, and one of the most accomplished followers, of Leonardo da Vinci.
Attributed to Aurelio Luini by Mario di Giampaolo at the time of its reappearance in 2002, this drawing is not preparatory for any known painting by the artist (Old Master Drawings, op.cit.). Around 1575–1580, Luini executed an altarpiece depicting a Lamentation of Christ for the church of San Paolo e Barnaba in Milan (G. Agosti and J. Stoppa, Bernardino Luini e i suoi figli, exh. cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2014, no. 85, ill.), but the composition differs from the present study. A pen and ink drawing by the artist of the same subject, very similar in composition to this work, is the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (inv. 5074; A. E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1949, no. 409).
This beautiful drawing was once part of one of the finest collections of drawings assembled in Venice in the early 18th Century, that of the nobleman Zaccaria Sagredo (1653-1729). The collection comprised several thousand drawings mounted in over fifty albums. The present sheet is still mounted on the page of the Sagredo’s album inscribed ‘S.L.’, an abbreviation for ‘Scuola Lombarda’.
Attributed to Aurelio Luini by Mario di Giampaolo at the time of its reappearance in 2002, this drawing is not preparatory for any known painting by the artist (Old Master Drawings, op.cit.). Around 1575–1580, Luini executed an altarpiece depicting a Lamentation of Christ for the church of San Paolo e Barnaba in Milan (G. Agosti and J. Stoppa, Bernardino Luini e i suoi figli, exh. cat., Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2014, no. 85, ill.), but the composition differs from the present study. A pen and ink drawing by the artist of the same subject, very similar in composition to this work, is the Royal Library, Windsor Castle (inv. 5074; A. E. Popham and J. Wilde, The Italian Drawings of the XV and XVI Centuries in the Collection of His Majesty the King at Windsor Castle, London, 1949, no. 409).
This beautiful drawing was once part of one of the finest collections of drawings assembled in Venice in the early 18th Century, that of the nobleman Zaccaria Sagredo (1653-1729). The collection comprised several thousand drawings mounted in over fifty albums. The present sheet is still mounted on the page of the Sagredo’s album inscribed ‘S.L.’, an abbreviation for ‘Scuola Lombarda’.