Lot 102: f - JACOPO ZUCCHI FLORENCE CIRCA 1540 - 1596 ROME AN ALLEGORY OF ARCHITECTURE: A MALE FIGURE WITH

f - JACOPO ZUCCHI FLORENCE CIRCA 1540 - 1596 ROME AN ALLEGORY OF ARCHITECTURE: A MALE FIGURE WITH TWO PUTTI

bears old attribution A. Carats and on the verso no:79

pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk

PROVENANCE

Sir Joshua Reynolds (L.2364);
P. Huart? (L.2084);
Alfred de Pass (according to the Colnaghi catalogue);
with P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., London, from whom purchased by the present owner in 1967;
bears another, unidentified collector's mark, lower left
EXHIBITED

London, P. & D. Colnaghi and Co., Old Master Drawings, June 13-30 1967, cat. no. 47;
Notre Dame, Indiana, University of Notre Dame, and Binghamton, State University of New York, The Age of Vasari, 1970, cat. no. D28, reproduced
LITERATURE AND REFERENCES

Edmund P. Pillsbury, 'Drawings by Jacopo Zucchi', Master Drawings, vol.XII, no. 1 (Spring 1974), p. 13; p. 28, note 48; p. 33; reproduced pl. 10;
Sabine Eiche, 'Un dessin inconnu de Jacopo Zucchi', in Revue de L'Art, 1995, no. 2, reproduced
CATALOGUE NOTE

The attribution to Jacopo Zucchi was first made by Philip Pouncey at the time of the Colnaghi exhibition of 1967. As pointed out in The Age of Vasari exhibition catalogue (loc. cit.), Zucchi here draws inspiration from the Laocöon group (rediscovered in 1506) and also Michelangelo's Jonah from the Sistine ceiling. Figures in similar poses appear in Zucchi's decoration of the vault of the Gallery of Palazzo Ruspoli, executed circa 1585, in particular a representation of Bacchus. Sabine Eiche (loc. cit. below) proposed a similar dating for this drawing, on stylistic grounds.

198 by 167mm