Bernardi (Pietro, c. 1585/90-1623). A kneeling Saint and Mary Magdalene

Attributed to Pietro Bernardi (circa 1585/90-1623). A young saint kneeling, pointing heavenwards, black chalk heightened with white on fibrous buff laid paper, sheet 41.0 x 27.8cm (16 1/8 x 10 7/8 ins.); together with Mary Magdalene in Penitence (?), black chalk heightened with white, and to verso Study of a putto’s leg, black and sanguine chalks with extensive heightening in white, on grey-green, fibrous laid paper, 273 x 415 cm. (1 study on one sheet and 2 studies on one sheet)

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Provenance: Estate of Michael Jaffe (1923-1997), art historian and former director of the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.