The Martyrdom of Saint Apollonia
Artist, Florentine, c. 1541 - c. 1590

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with white over black chalk on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall (approximate): 25.2 x 12.9 cm (9 15/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
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Accession
1983.74.20
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
[Rockman Gallery, New York]; Julius S. Held, Old Bennington, VT; Alexis Ford Audette, 1983; NGA purchase, 1983.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1970
The Age of Vasari, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, South Bend, IN, and University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1970, no. D29.
Selections from the Drawing Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Julius S. Held, University Art Gallery, Binghamton; traveling exhibition, 1970, no. 141.
1979
Master Drawings from the Collection of Ingrid and Julius S. Held, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; traveling exhibition, 1979, no. 3.
1988
Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.
1990
Julius S. Held, Drawings from His Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 1990, no. 64 (xeroxed checklist).
1991
From Studio to Studiolo, Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College; Bowdoin College Museum of Art; Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1991-1992, no. 59 (not exhibited at Dartmouth).
Bibliography
1974
Pillsbury, Edmund. "Drawing by Jacopo Zucchi." Master Drawings 12, no. 1 (Spring, 1974): 15, 29 note 54, pl.15a.
Inscriptions
lower center verso in graphite: [Th?] Zuccaro/Liz 00; lower left verso: 1463
Wikidata ID
Q64580094