Study of the Figure and Head of Christ in "Christ on the Cross and Mary Magdalene", c. 1879

Not on View

Medium

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

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund

Accession Number

2017.31.1

Artists / Makers

Mosè Bianchi (artist) Italian, 1840 - 1904

Image Use

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Inscription

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

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

Stanza del Borgo