Master of the Ghislieri Apse (16th Century)

The Flagellation

Details

Master of the Ghislieri Apse (16th Century)
Master of the Ghislieri Apse
The Flagellation
with inscriptions 'Fed [over Tad] Zucaro'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, grayish-brown wash, the architecture on pinpoint indications
11.3/8 x 6.5/8 in. (289 x 169 mm.)

Provenance

J. van Haecken (L. 2516).
J. Barnard (L. 1420), with inscriptions 'N 11 x 6' on the mount.
Sir Thomas Lawrence (L. 2445).
Samuel Woodburn, 1830; Christie's, 4 June 1860, part of lot 1074 (60gns. to Sir Thomas Phillipps).
Sir Thomas Phillipps, by descent to
Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick.
Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1930.
Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia.
The British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; Sotheby's New York, 11 January 1990, lot 48.

Literature

J.A. Gere, 'The Lawrence-Phillipps-Rosenbach Zuccaro Album', Master Drawings, 1970, VIII, pp. 136-7, no. 38, pl. 22 (as Cristofano Roncalli).
P. Ward-Jackson, Italian Drawings of the Victoria and Albert Museum, 14th-16th Century, London, 1979, I, under no. 484.
J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Artists working in Rome, c.1550 to c.1640, London, 1983, under nos. 354-7.
V. Birke and J. Kertsz, Die Italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1992, under Inv. 608.

Exhibited

London, The Lawrence Gallery, One hundred Original Drawings by Zucchero, Andrea del Sarto, Polidore da Caravaggio and Fra Bartolomeo, April 1836.

Lot Essay

This drawing is related to another of the same subject and approximately the same size from the Ferretti di Castelferretto collection sold at Christie's London, 2 July 1996, lot 1. The anonymous artist worked in the orbit of Zuccaro and was named by Philip Pouncey on the basis of a design for an apse bearing the arms of Pope Pius V Ghislieri (1566-1572) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, P. Ward-Jackson, op. cit., no. 484. A drawing related to the same apse is in the Albertina, Vienna, V. Birke and J. Kertsz, op. cit., Inv. 608. Further drawings by this artist are in Munich (Inv. 2278, Pentecost, as Marco Pino), in the Louvre (Inv. 2980 as Roncalli) and in the British Museum, J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, op. cit., nos. 354-7, pls. 346-7.