_Marco d'Oggionno_ (Lombard: about 1470-1530).
Marco, called Oggionno from the village near Milan in which he
was born, was one of the pupils and imitators of Leonardo. He
made several copies of the master's "Last Supper," one of which
is in the collection of the Royal Academy. His best original
work on a large scale is the "Triumph of the Three Archangels
over Satan," in the Brera. Among his smaller works, the
"Infant Christ caressing St. John," at Hampton Court, is more
successful than most. His works, says M. Müntz, "are wanting
in vivacity of feeling and purity of drawing, and intensity of
colour does duty for intensity of sentiment."
This is a characteristic example of the painter's work. He succeeded
in catching a little of Leonardo's smile, "chilled as it were on the
way" (Logan). The study in chalk for the Virgin's head is in the Dyce
Collection in the South Kensington Museum.