From Taddeo to Tiepolo: The Dr. John O’Brien Collection of Old Master Drawings

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Taddeo Zuccaro

Recto: Two groups of figures, studies for the Frangipani Chapel, San Marcello al Corso Verso: Studies for the lunette above the altar in the Frangipani Chapel and an architectural design for a wall decoration

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January 27, 09:35 PM GMT

Estimate

180,000 - 220,000 USD

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Taddeo Zuccaro

Sant' Angelo in Vado, Marches 1529 - 1566 Rome

Recto: Two groups of figures, studies for the Frangipani Chapel, San Marcello al Corso

Verso: Studies for the lunette above the altar in the Frangipani Chapel and an architectural design for a wall decoration

Black chalk and brown ink and gray and brown wash (recto and verso);

corners cut

340 by 262 mm; 13 1/2 by 10 1/4 in

Giovanni Morelli (according to exhib. cat. Milwaukee, 1989) ;
Francesco Dubini (according to exhib. cat. Milwaukee, 1989);
Dubini-Hoepli Collection (according to exhib. cat. Milwaukee, 1989);
with Armando Neerman, London, Old Master Drawings, 1975, no. 13, reproduced (recto and verso)

E. James Mundy, Renaissance into Baroque, Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, exhib. cat., Milwaukee, Art Museum and New York, National Academy of Design, Renaissance into Baroque, 1989-90, p. 90, under no. 15, pp. 94-96, under no. 17;
J.A. Gere, 'Taddeo Zuccaro: Addenda and Corrigenda,' in Master Drawings, vol. 33, 1995, pp. 275-78, no. 138-A, figs. 53-54 (recto and verso);
C. Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, Fratelli pittori del Cinquecento, Rome 1998, vol. I, p. 71