Flagellation of Saint Catherine

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Prints and Drawings

1550/55

Bernardino Lanino
Italian, c. 1509-after 1581

Currently Off View: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Bernardino Lanino
Title: Flagellation of Saint Catherine
Origin: Italy
Date: 1550–1555
Medium: Brush and brown ink and brown wash, with black ink, heightened with white gouache and white oil paint, with black chalk, on lunette-shaped blue laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down on cream laid paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, lower center on tab glued to drawing, in pen and brown ink: "Gaudenzio"
Dimensions: 510 x 373 mm
Credit Line: Margaret Day Blake Collection
Reference Number: 1994.97

Giacomo Rodolfo, Disegni di Gaudenzio Ferrari e di Bernardino Lanino già nella Galleria dei Duchi di Savoia in Torino (Carmagnola, 1927), p. 9 (as after Gaudenzio Ferrari).
Robert Randolf Coleman, “The Flagellation of St. Catherine by Bernardino Lanino in Chicago,” Arte Lombarda 17 (1996), pp. 102-08 (ill. p. 103).
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 127, no. 163 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, August 14, 1994-January 31, 1995.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” April 10-July 22, 1997.

Vittorio Amadeo I di Savoia (1587-1637), Turin; by descent to the Dukes of Savoy/Sabauda collection, Turin. Cavaliere Antonio Abrate [not in Lugt], Turin; sold, 1928 [Grassi 1941, p. 205]. Durand Matthiesen Galleries, Geneva; Matthiesen Galleries, London, c. 1951 [McCullagh and Giles 1997]. Sold, Christie’s, London, July 7, 1992, lot 122 (ill.). Sold by Aldega/Gordon, New York, to the Art Institute, 1993.

McCullagh & Giles 163

Object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge. To help improve this record, please email .

Suggested Terms