drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.361
- Description
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Presentation of the Virgin (?), with a row of figure studies, mainly heads below. c.1560
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
Verso: The same subject
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk
- Production date
- 1560
- Dimensions
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Height: 293 millimetres
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Width: 199 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Popham accepted the old attribution to Luini written on the verso. Bora suggested that the drawing showed a scene from the life of St Ambrose and was connected to a payment to the artist in May 1591 to provide four designs of the saint's life for the choir stalls of Milan cathedral. This composition does not feature in the choir stalls so it is impossible to verify this.
Lit.: A.E. Popham, 'Catalogue of Drawings in the Collection formed by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bart., F.R.S., now in the possession of his Grandson, T. Fitzroy Phillipps Fenwick of Thirlestaine House, Cheltenham', London, 1935, p. 64, no. 1; G. Bora, in exhib. cat., Milan, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, 'Il Seicento Lombardo', 1973, no. 11, fig. 10
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1973 Milan, Ambrosiana, 'Il Seicento Lombardo', no. 11
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.361
