St Luke Painting the Virgin

Giovanni Lanfranco (1581 - 1647)

British Museum

circa 1611

The drawing exemplifies the exaggerated effects of light and dark and dramatic composition that so characterise Lanfranco's paintings.

• Medium: black chalk, pen & brown wash, heightened with white &yellow
• Dimensions: 25.2 x 19.7cm
• Art Fund Grant: £4576 ( Total: £45,760)
• ArtFunded in: 1992
• Vendor: Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox

Provenance

Earls of Leicester, Holkham Hall: sold Christie's 2/7/91, lot21.

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