The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist in a landscape

Details

Lelio Orsi (Reggio 1511-1587 Novellara)
The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist in a landscape
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white (partly oxidized) on brown paper
12½ x 8 in. (316 x 205 mm.)

Literature

Antichità Viva, XII (1973), 5, p. 74.
D. Degrazia, Correggio and his legacy, exhib. cat., Washington, National Gallery of Art, and Parma, Galleria Nazionale, 1984, p. 254 (Italian edition p. 272), note 7 (as Manner of Bedoli, from a photograph).
E. Monducci et al., Lelio Orsi, exhib. cat., Reggio Emilia, Teatro Valli, 1987, no. 113.

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Lot Essay

Fiorella Frisoni dates the present sheet to the 1570s, noting that it can be 'placed with absolute conviction among Lelio's works' (E. Monducci et al., op. cit., p. 133). Dr. Frisoni compares the drawing with a print by Hendrick van der Borcht in the Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna which appears to be after a drawing very similar to the present work and which is inscribed 'Lelio da novellare in. borcht fe' (E. Monducci et al., op. cit., fig. 113b).

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