Aurelio Luini

With Armando Neerman, London, Old Master Drawings, 1975 (?), no. 14, reproduced;
with Yvonne ffrench, London, from whom purchased, April 1975

London, Armando Neerman, Old Master Drawings, 1975 (?), no. 14, reproduced (as Aurelio Luini);
London, 1975, no. 13;
Newcastle, 1982, no. 10

Hinged to a modern mount. Creases, across center and elsewhere. Top edge darkened. Top left corner and bottom left corner worn and crumpled. Ink still good and strong.
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This is very similar in scale, technique and style to a drawing of Two Standing Figures, sold New York, Sotheby's, 23 January 2008, lot 3.  They both compare closely with the Standing Figure of a Saint, in the Ambrosiana, which is inscribed Aurelio Luvino pi.re.¹  All may have been designs for the same project, probably a series of Apostles.

1.  G. Bora, Disegni dei Manieristi Lombardi, Vicenza 1971, p. 57, no. 94, reproduced fig. 94