The Entombment of Christ

Two early copies of this drawing exist; one in the British Museum pasted onto the page of one of Padre Resta’s books of drawings, the Secolo prattico (inv. 1900.2.14.1; see J. A. Gere, 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, no. 342, as after Taddeo Zuccaro; and F. Grisolia, ‘Hora avea in fantasia il dolce del Correggio, hora il risentito di Michelangelo. Su Padre Resta e Taddeo Zuccaro’, in Padre Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714). Milanese, oratoriano, collezionista di disegni nel Seicento a Roma, Rome, 2017, p. 215). The page includes many annotations in Resta’s hand that reveal the uncertainty of the attribution of that weak copy. Resta mentions also that a painting by Taddeo of the same subject was in the collection of the Marchese del Carpio. The second copy was in these rooms on 7 July 1981, lot 37, as attributed to Andrea Boscoli.
We are grateful to Marco Simone Bolzoni for his assistance in cataloguing this drawing.