Alexander the Great and Bucephalus
c. 1553
Artist, Roman, 1529 - 1566

Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of graphite on laid paper
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 19.4 x 24.1 cm (7 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.)
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Accession
1991.182.1
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Catalogue Raisonné
Gere 1969/1995, no. 249, State C
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Private collection (sale, Christie's, London, 5 July 1983, lot 62); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990; gift to NGA, 1991.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, 1985, no. 80 (checklist only).
1987
Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 24.
1989
Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600, Milwaukee Art Museum and National Academy of Design, New York, 1989-1990, no. 7.
1990
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 31.
1995
The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995-1996, no. 53.
2006
Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007.
2007
Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro : Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, no. 37.
2017
The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, NGA, 2017.
Bibliography
1984
Stock, Julien. Il valore dei disegni antichi, L'analisi critica, storica ed economica. Turin, 1984: 224.
1994
Cheney, Iris. "Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600 Exhibition Catalogue." _Master Drawings_32, No. 1 (1994): 64-67.
1995
Gere, John A. "Taddeo Zuccaro: Addenda and Corrigenda," Master Drawings 33, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 302-303, no. 249-C, fig. 84.
Gere, John A. Taddeo Zuccaro: His Development Studied in His Drawings. London: Faber and Faber, 1969.Gere, John A. "Taddeo Zuccaro: Addenda and Corrigenda," Master Drawings, 33, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 223-323.
1998
Acidini Luchinat, Cristina. Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cinquecento. Milan, 1998, 1: 24, 40, note 15, and 25, fig. 1.
Wikidata ID
Q64633030