Lot 267: FEDERICO ZUCCARO

SANT' ANGELO IN VADO, MARCHES 1540/42 - 1609 ANCONA TWO MAGI AND AN ATTENDANT Pen and brown ink and wash, heightened with white, over black chalk, within black chalk framing lines; bears pencil attribution on the backing: Villamena and date: May 13 1715, and in pen and brown ink: N 64 309 by 180 mm

Newcastle, 1982, no. 17, reproduced pl. IV B (as Giovanni Battista Ricci)

Robert Udny (L.2248); with P & D Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased, late 1950s

This drawing formerly attributed to Giovanni Battista Ricci, was recognised as the work of Federico by Philip Pouncey in January 1985. It is related, with differences, to the figures on the right end side of Zuccaro's altarpiece the Adoration of the Magi, formerly in the church of S. Eligio, Rome, now lost, but known through an engraving by Matham (fig. 1).