Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli Viadana c.1510-c.1569 Parma

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Description

Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli
madonna and child
pen and brown ink and grey wash heightened with white, on paper washed light grey

Provenance

W. Sharp (L.2650);
Lord St. Helens;
Mrs M. Edwards;
By whom sold, London, Christie's, 4 July 1972, lot 169, bt. by Wallis;
De Giovanni Collection

Exhibited

London, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Disegni e Dipinti dal Cinquecento all' Ottocento, 1995, pp. 24-5, cat. no. 5, reproduced

Literature

Mario di Giampaolo, Girolamo Mazzola Bedoli, Florence 1997, p. 183, cat. no. 102, illustration 184 and p. 169, under cat. no. 81

Catalogue Note

Mario di Giampaolo (loc.cit.) writes that this drawing was brought to his attention by Philip Pouncey, who first made the attribution to Bedoli. He dates it in the 1540s and compares it stylistically to two other drawings of the same period: The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine, sold in these Rooms, 1 July 1971, lot 193; and the Madonna and Child with St. John the Baptist, in the Royal Institute of Cornwall, Truro (see Literature, nos. 81 and 131, both reproduced).