Angels and Putti in the Clouds

1566

Federico Zuccaro

Artist, Roman, 1542/1543 - 1609

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red and black chalk over graphite?, incised with stylus, on laid paper squared with red chalk

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall: 39.7 x 27.2 cm (15 5/8 x 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1971.23.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Ch. Mewes Arch. (stamp); Nathan Chaïkin, Venthône, Switzerland; NGA purchase in 1971.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 18.

1981

  • The Draftsman's Eye, Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1981, no. 77.

1985

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

1988

  • Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

1989

  • Renaissance into Baroque, Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600, Milwaukee Art Museum and National Academy of Design, New York, 1989-90, no. 62.

Bibliography

1998

  • Acidini Luchinat, Cristina. Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cinquecento. Milan, 1998, 1: 257, fig. 59, and 264, note 173.

Inscriptions

in unknown hand, lower right in brown ink?: B[AP?]

Wikidata ID

Q64561240

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