Giovanni de Lorenzo Larciani

His original name referred to a body of works at the National Gallery of Art that form part of the Kress Collection.

While studying that work, Louis Alexander Waldman discovered documents, including a contract from 1521, that linked it with someone named Giovanni Larciani, whose biography and oeuvre the same scholar has reconstructed in a series of publications.

He may also have painted Portrait of a Young Woman, also previously attributed as a very early Rosso work.

He is credited with the background landscape in Joseph Being Led to Prison by Francesco Granacci, painted for the Camera nuziale Borgherini [it].

He has since been credited with a Madonna and Child at the Galerie Hans in Hamburg and a Holy Family with St.John at the Galleria Borghese.

Kress Landscape
Kress Landscape (Scene from a Legend)