Lot 17: FEDERICO ZUCCARO

SANT' ANGELO IN VADO, MARCHES 1540/42 - 1609 ANCONA A MAN SEATED AT A TABLE, HOLDING A PALM Black and red chalk 191 by 140 mm

Earl Spencer (L.1530); William Esdaile (L.2617), his sale, London, Christie's, 23 June 1840, lot 896, as Claude Mellan after Holbein (with lots 893-8), for 3 Guineas, to Haitren; sale, London, Christie's, 4 July 1995, lot 21

This drawing was probably made while Federico Zuccaro was traveling in Northern Europe and is an example of the artist copying another master's work, a standard practice. It has previously been thought to be a copy after Holbein, but there is no known surviving portrait to justify this. The attribution to Zuccaro was confirmed by James Mundy at the time of the Christie's sale in 1995.