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GIOVAN BATTISTA DISCEPOLI called LO ZOPPO DA LUGANO (Castagnola c. 1590 - 1654) THE VIRGIN AND CHILD
Black chalk, heightened with white, on faded blue paper. Inscribed in pen '52'. 343 x 205 mm. The handling of the chalk and the facial type of the Child fit well with the chalk drawings by Discepoli. See Francesco Frangi and Anna Bernardini, 'Giovan Battista Discepoli detto lo Zoppo da Lugano. Un protagonista della pittura barocca in Lombardia', catalogue of the exhibition in Rancate, 2001; nos, from 36 to 53.

A Lombard painter and draughtsman, Discepoli was a follower of Camillo Procaccini and was also influenced by Morazzone and, in his late years, by contemporary Genoese baroque painters. Discepoli worked in Milan, Como and Lugano.