DrawingsItalian16th century

Saint Gaudenzio

16th century

Artists

Bernardino LaninoArtist

Gaudenzio FerrariPrevious attribution

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown wash over black chalk heightened with white gouache on blue antique laid paper, mounted overall to cream antique laid paper, drum-mounted to off-white wove paper, squared in black chalk, framing lines in brown ink

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

38 × 18.3 cm (14 15/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Rodolpho[1]. [Sotheby's, New York] sold; to Vermeer Associates Limited, sold; to Harvard University Art Museums, 1994 [1] per Janos Scholz

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