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BERNARDINO LUINI (LUINI 1480/85-1532 LUGANO)

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£ 1 000 000
Auction dateClassic
06.07.2023 14:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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ID 990536
Lot 27 | BERNARDINO LUINI (LUINI 1480/85-1532 LUGANO)
BERNARDINO LUINI (LUINI 1480/85-1532 LUGANO)

The Nativity, with the Journey to Egypt beyond

tempera and oil on panel

46 3/4 x 35 3/8 in. (118.7 x 89.8 cm.)





Provenance

Giuseppe Bianchi, Milan, from whom purchased by James Irvine (?1759-1831) for 350 louis d’or shortly before 27 June 1827, as ‘Madonna Joseph and young Christ by Luini’ (letter from Irvine to the following), on behalf of the following,

Sir William Forbes, 7th Bt. of Pitsligo (1773-1828), Fettercairn House, Kincardineshire, by descent to his son,

Sir John Stuart Hepburn Forbes, 8th Bt. of Pitsligo (1804-1866), by whom sold, in or soon after 1828, for £800 to the following,

Sir Archibald Campbell, 2nd Bt. of Succoth, Lord Succoth (1769-1846), Garscube House, Dunbartonshire, and by descent to his second son,

Sir George Campbell, 4th Bt. of Succoth (1829-1874), recorded as no. 86 in the Drawing Room at Garscube as by Luini or Gaudenzio Ferrari in an inventory of 1864 (Glasgow University Archive, Garscube Estate, 80/430, published online as a supplement by P. Humfrey, 2009), and by descent to the latter’s great-grandson,

Sir Ilay Campbell, 7th Bt. of Succoth (1927-2017), at Garscube, until 1939, and from 1959 at Crarae Lodge, Argyllshire.



Literature

G. F. Waagen, Treasures of Art in Great Britain, London, 1854, III, p. 294, as by Gaudenzio Ferrari (‘To this admirable master I have no hesitation in ascribing a picture … This picture has a great charm of composition, with a fine feeling in the heads, and transparency of colour’).

H. F. Cook, Illustrated Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and allied Schools of Lombardy, exhibition catalogue, London, 1899, pp. lxvii.

G. C. Williamson, Luini, London, 1899, p. 104.

B. Berenson, North Italian Painters of the Renaissance, London and New York, 1907, p. 251 (listed under Scotland).

A. Ottino della Chiesa, Bernardino Luini, Novara, 1956, pp. 39 and 76, no. 54, fig. 128 (‘Importante originale ricco di particolari preziosi’).

B. Berenson, Italian Pictures of the Renaissance: Central Italian and North Italian Schools, London, 1968, I, p. 228.

P. Humfrey, ‘The collection of Old Master paintings formed by Sir Archibald Campbell of Succoth at Garscube House, near Glasgow’, Journal of the History of Collections, 2009, pp. 4-5, fig. 5.

G. Renzi and M. Romeri, in G. Agosti and J. Stoppa, Bernardino Luini e i suoi figli, exhibition catalogue, Milan, Palazzo Reale, 2014, p. 180, under no. 30.

T. Tovaglieri, in G. Agosti, R. Sacchi and J. Stoppa, Bernardino Luini e i suoi figli: Itinerari, Milan, 2014, p. 195.

C. Quattrini, Bernardino Luini, Catalogo generale delle opere, Turin, 2020, pp. 287-8, no. 96, dated to around 1520.



Exhibited

Glasgow, Art Gallery, from before 1955 until 1959, on long term loan.

London, Royal Academy, Italian Art and Britain, 2 January-6 March 1960, no. 117. 
Applied technique:Oil on panel, Painted, Tempera
Art style:Old Masters
Place of origin:Italy, Europe
Auction house category:Paintings
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