FJK 139
Zuccaro Taddeo (Italian, Sant’Angelo in Vado 1529–1566 Rome)
Swooning Virgin Supported by a Holy Woman with Subsidiary Studies of the Virgin’s Head and Hands (recto)
Study of Drapery (verso)
ca. 1553-1556
6 49/64 × 10 in. (172 × 254 mm)
Medium
Black chalk on cream antique laid paper (recto)
Red chalk (verso)
Signed and annotated in Federico Zuccaro’s hand: schizo de mano de Tadeo/…vento
Collector’s mark “Krautheimer” on the reverse
Origin
Professor Richard Krautheimer (1897-1994) and Doctor Trude Krautheimer-Hess (1902-1987)
Sale, Christie’s, New York, January 10, 1996, no. 11
Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection
Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings, January 23, 2008, no. 24
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6794
Jan Krugier Foundation
Bibliography
GERE J.A., Taddeo Zuccaro, London: Faber And Faber, 1969, p. 6, no. 145, pl. 47, ill.
GERE J.A., “The Lawrence-Pillipps-Rosenbach Zuccaro Album”, in Master Drawings, vol. VIII, 1970, p. 126.
LUCHINAT Cristina Acidini, Taddeo e Federico Zuccaro, Milan: Jandi Sapi Editori, 1998, vol. I, pp. 51, 57, note 28.
CLARK A.L. (ed.), Mastery and Elegance, Two Centuries of French Drawings from the Collection of Jeffrey E. Horvitz, Cambridge, 1998, p. 84, fig. 8.
Exhibitions
Poughkeepsie, NY, Vassar College, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Mrs. Richard Krautheimer, 1963, no. 5.
Notes
The recto of this sheet is preparatory for the figure of the Madonna in the Crucified Christ with the Virgin and the Holy Women, situated above the altar in the Mattei Chapel, in the Roman Church of Santa Maria della Consolazione. A drapery study of a standing figure on the verso instead appears to be connected to a female figure in the background of the Washing of the Feet, a different scene from the same cycle.
Taddeo’s work in the Mattei Chapel marks a turning point from the first fifty years of the sixteenth century. The important commission was entrusted to the artist by the wealthy Roman patron Jacopo Mattei in 1553. Completed only in 1556, the fresco cycle depicts scenes from the Passion of Christ, culminating in the Crucifixion, to which the recto of the present drawing is related. The large number of preparatory studies that have survived bear witness to Taddeo’s evolving ideas for the cycle, his talent for composition and his powerful skills as a draughtsman.
Sotheby's, The Jeffrey E. Horvitz Collection of Italian Drawings, New York, January 2008
Request for information/loan
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