Kneeling Angels
Kneeling Angels
- Artist
- Bernardino Lanino
- Artist Dates
- c. 1509-died after 1581
- Artist Nationality
- Italian
- Title
- Kneeling Angels
- Date
- c. 1565
- Medium
- oil on panel
- Dimensions
- 44.1 x 99.1 cm (17-3/4 x 39 in)
- K Number
- K1211
- Repository
- Snite Museum of Art
- Accession Number
- 1961.047.009
- Notes
-
One of two related panels, with K1210
Provenance
Aldo Noseda [1853-1916] Milan. [1] (Count Alessandro Contini Bonacossi [1878-1955], Rome-Florence); sold to Samuel H. Kress [1863-1955] on 1 September 1939 as Gaudenzio Ferrari; gift to the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame in 1961, no. 61.47.9. [1] The Noseda collection was sold at auction at the Galleria Pesaro in Milan 2-5 December 1929, but this painting was not included in the sale.
Catalogue Entry
Bernardino Lanino
Kneeling Angels
K1211
Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame, Study Collection (61.47.8 and 9), since 1961.(1) Wood. K1210, 17 1/2 x 39 in. (44.5 x 99.1 cm.); K1211, 17 3/8 x 39 in. (44·1 x 99.1 cm.). Both in good condition. Almost unanimously attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari, these two monochrome paintings are nevertheless characteristic of Lanino, in his advanced period, about 1565.(2) Unmistakable parallels are offered by the kneeling angels in Lanino's monochrome study, in the Brera, Milan, for his Adoration in the Church of San Paolo, Vercelli, documented to 1565.(3) Equally pertinent for comparison are the kneeling figures in the study of about the same date, in the Biblioteca Reale, Turin, for a Crucifixion.(4) K1210 and K1211 also are apparently studies, details for a now unknown altarpiece in which they would have flanked a central figure group protected by baldachin curtains. The lower parts of these curtains are preserved in K1210 and K1211. Provenance: Aldo Noseda, Milan. Contini Bonacossi, Florence. Kress acquisition, 1939 –exhibited: 'Leonardo da Vinci,' Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, Calif., June 3-July 17, 1949, no. 67 of catalogue by W. E. Suida as Gaudenzio Ferrari.
References
(1) Catalogue, 1962, pp. unnumbered, as Gaudenzio Ferrari. (2) K1210 and K1211 have been attributed to Gaudenzio Ferrari by B. Berenson (North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, 1907, p. 230), G. Fiocco, R. Longhi, F. M. Perkins, A. Venturi (in ms. opinions), and W. E. Suida (in Bollettino della Societa Piemontese di Archeologia e di Belle Arti, vol. VIII-XI, 1954-57, p. 83, dating them 1512/13). A. Griseri (in Paragone, no. 173, 1964, p. 20) seems to be the only critic who has observed that the panels should attributed to Lanino. (3) The Brera study is reproduced in the catalogue of the 'Mostra di Gaudenzio Ferrari,' Museo Borgogna, Vercelli, Apr.-June, 1956, pl. 136. (4) Reproduced, ibid., pl. 135.
Catalogue Volume
Italian Paintings XV – XVI Century