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

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.

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

Bianchi, Mosè

c. 1879

Accession Number

2017.31.1

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.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Joseph F. McCrindle Endowment Fund