Lot 9: Taddeo Zuccaro (Sant'Angelo in Vado 1529-1566 Rome)

A crouching female nude drying her ankle red chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash 5 5/8 x 51/4 in. (143 x 132 mm.) PROVENANCE Anon. sale; Christie's, London, 4 July 1984, lot 33. LITERATURE J.A. Gere, 'Taddeo Zuccaro: Addenda and Corrigenda', Master Drawings, XXXIII (1995), p. 306, no. 264-B, fig. 87. NOTES John Gere, who suggested the attribution in 1984, dates this drawing not later than 1550.