Federico Zuccaro (1540/1-1609)

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Federico Zuccaro (1540/1-1609)

Saint John the Baptist preaching

black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, on light brown paper
231 x 173mm.

Provenance

The Pseudo-Resta, 'gb'
J. Richardson Sen., his shelfmarks 'V.44/Zg. 15/LL.26' (L.2984)
Anon. sale, Christie's, 8 Dec. 1981, lot 36, illustrated (#1300)

Exhibited

Milwaukee, Art Museum and New York, National Academy of Design, Renaissance into Baroque, Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, 1989-90, no. 40, illustrated

Lot Essay

Loren Partridge suggested that this may be a primo pensiero for the fresco in the chapel at Caprarola dating from circa 1566-7, a view with which James Mundy concurs. Drawings of the Baptist, possibly related to the same project, are at Berlin (no. 21806) and Stockholm (no. 448).

As Mundy points out the present sheet is strongly influenced by his brother's drawings

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