Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 105. (Budapest, 2006)

ANDREA CZÉRE: Giambettino Cignaroli's Drawing of the Virgin and Child in the Budapest Collection: On the Third Centenary of the Artist's Birth

Garas 1972, figs. 67-68; Biblioteca Ambrosiana Cod. F256, no. 74; Cod. F 258, no. 351. The Virgin and Child, grey brush, 213x150 mm, from the collection of István Delhaes (D. I. monogram with a blue stamp on the verso of the sheet, Lugt Supplement 761) Watermark: Stag. On the verso a subsequent, unskilled hand, by means of transillumination, started to copy the outlines of the Virgin's robe in black chalk. Above it a curve of letters, also unskillfully executed, inv. K.

58.217. In my catalogue raisonné of the seventeenth-century Italian drawings of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts I have already mentioned this attribution in the list of drawings excluded from seventeenthcentury Italian drawings, see A. Czére, 17th Century Italian Drawings in the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts: A Complete Catalogue, Budapest 2004, 342. Warma 1988, 225-41, 253-68. No fully illustrated monograph on the complete painted œuvre of Cignaroli has been published so far. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 256, no. 66. Ibid., no. 139. Milan, Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Cod. F. 258, no. 318.