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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1965.434
People
Studio of Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian (Sant'Angelo in Vado, Italy 1529 - 1566 Rome, Italy)
Previously attributed to Taddeo Zuccaro, Italian (Sant'Angelo in Vado, Italy 1529 - 1566 Rome, Italy)
Title
A Design for an Overdoor Decoration; verso: Profile of Woman's Head
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
16th century
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296421

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Brown ink and brown wash with traces of black chalk on cream antique laid paper; verso: black chalk, drum-mounted to antique laid paper decorated mount
Dimensions
23.5 × 42.2 cm (9 1/4 × 16 5/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • watermark: Crossed arrows surmounted by a six-pointed star (similar to Briquet 6291)
  • collector's mark: l.r. center edge, black ink: L. 2092

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Sir Peter Lely, London (Lugt 2092). [P. & D. Colnaghi, London] sold; to Paul J. Sachs (by 1929), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum,1965

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1965
Object Number
1965.434
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs, Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, 1940), vol. 1, cat. no. 212, pp. 113-14; vol. 2, repr. fig. 116 as Taddeo Zuccaro
  • John A. Gere and Philip Pouncey, Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: Artists Working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, British Museum Publications Limited (London, England, 1983), pp. 209-210 as "...a product of the studio..."
  • E. James Mundy and Elizabeth Ourusoff de Fernandez-Gimenez, Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, 1989 (To accompany an exhibition held at Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin (11/17/89-01/14/90) and The National Academy of Design (03/13/90-04/29/90).), cat. no. 31, pp. 122-125, repr. as attributed to Taddeo

Exhibition History

  • Pontormo to Greco: The Age of Mannerism, John Herron Art Institute, Indianapolis, 02/14/1954 - 03/28/1954
  • Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, 11/17/1989 - 01/14/1990; National Academy of Design, New York, 03/13/1990 - 04/29/1990
  • 32Q: 2540 Renaissance, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/23/2023 - 02/26/2024

Verification Level

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