The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings

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Lot 38
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Federico Zuccaro

Estimate
20,000 - 25,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Federico Zuccaro
  • the madonna supporting the infant christ as salvator mundi, with st joseph, st anthony abbot, st dorothy and a donor, with two angels
  • Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, heightened with white, on paper washed ochre

Provenance

With Katrin Bellinger, Munich; acquired in 1998 

Exhibited

New York, Katrin Bellinger at W.M. Brady and Co., Old Master Drawings, 1995, no.9  (catalogue entry by James Mundy)

Literature

George Goldner, Review of Renaissance into Baroque, exh cat., Milwaukee Art Museum et al., The Burlington Magazine, vol. CXXIV, no. 1067, February 1992, p. 125, under no. 84

Condition

Seems to have been laid down. Small hole near pig's head; some oxidization, especially on the face and head of Christ. A small crease at the bottom right corner; small repair top left corner.
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Catalogue Note

A more sketchily executed preparatory drawing for this composition is in the Metropolitan Museum.1  In that sheet, in addition to other minor differences, the identity of the saints is less clear. There is, however, no trace of a surviving painting, but the finished character of the present drawing indicates that one may well have been commissioned.  Two other related drawings are known. On the verso of a drawing at Christ Church, Oxford, there is another study for the Virgin and Child,2 and a double-sided drawing in the Louvre shows the Christ Child in the attitude of Salvator Mundi, as He is here.3 The Metropolitan drawing is considered a late work (no earlier than 1580), although as James Mundy pointed out in his entry in the Bellinger exhibition catalogue, the recto of the Oxford sheet is apparently related to Federico's earlier work for Orvieto (1568-69).

1. James Mundy, Renaissance into Baroque, exhibition catalogue, Milwaukee Art Museum, et al., 1989-90, p. 250, no. 84

2. James Byam Shaw, Drawings by Old Masters at Christ Church, Oxford, Oxford 1976, vol. I, p. 156, no. 547, reproduced vol. II, pl. 304

3. John Gere, Dessins de Taddeo et Federico Zuccaro, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Louvre, 1969, p. 67, no. 92