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BERNARDINO LANINO (Mortara 1512-1583 Vercelli) The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist and St. Elizabeth.
Brush and light brown ink, wash and bodycolor on cream laid paper mounted on paper board. 480x352 mm; 19x14 inches (overall); 290x270 mm; 11x10 1/2 inches (scene within the entablature). Inscribed illegibly "originale...del...Gaudenzio..." in ink, lower right recto. Ex-collection Giuseppe Vallardi (Lugt 1223, lower left recto); and Rasini, Milan, sold at Sotheby's, Florence, September 30, 1986, lot 43.
Published in Morassi, Disegni antichi della Collezione Rasini in Milano, Milan, 1937, page 35; and Romano, Bernardino Lanino e il Cinquecento a Vercelli, Torino, 1986, page 286 (illustrated).
The current work likely relates to Leonardo Da Vinci's same-titled drawing, sometimes called the Burlington House Cartoon, charcoal and black and white chalk on 8-joined sheets of paper, circa 1495-1500, now in the National Gallery, London. According to the Florentine artist and chronicler Giorgio Vasari, writing in the mid-16th-century, Leonardo's cartoon was put on public display in Florence around 1500, drawing large crowds to view the artwork.
