Study of the Figure and Head of Christ in "Christ on the Cross and Mary Magdalene"

c. 1879

Mosè Bianchi

Artist, Italian, 1840 - 1904

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite, brush and black wash, heightened with white chalk on coarse gray paper

  • Credit Line

    Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 49.5 × 37.4 cm (19 1/2 × 14 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2017.31.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Juan (d. 1920) and Felix Bernasconi (d. 1914), Lugano; by descent in the Bernasconi family; Maria Elvira Celia Mendez de Bernasconi (d. 2005) by 1977 (probably the Bernasconi sale, Christie's, London, 27 March 1987); (Stanza del Borgo, Milan); purchased 2017 by NGA.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

by later hand, center verso in ballpoint pen: Maria Elvira Celia Mendez de Bernasconi / 1977; in graphite: 255; graphite sketch of Christ on the cross; in graphite, lower right: GP 209

Wikidata ID

Q64617970


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