LUINI, BERNARDINO

MADONNA AND CHILD

First half of XVI century

38 x 28 cm

Inv.: 2668

In the past this work was attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, in whose name it was engraved by Ignaz Sebastian Klauber for the third, unpublished, volume of the Hermitage Gallery [catalogue].

Provenance: presented by the Russian envoy in Rome, Count A. Y. Italinskii to Tsar Alexander I in 1811; assigned to the Hermitage in 1829; in the Pushkin Gallery since 1930.