A Man Seen from Behind [recto]

c. 1555

Taddeo Zuccaro

Associated Names
Taddeo Zuccaro

Artist, Roman, 1529 - 1566

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    red chalk heightened with white on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    overall (approximate): 34.4 x 18.3 cm (13 9/16 x 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1972.4.2.a

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Gere 1969/1995, no. 249, State A

Associated Artworks

A Man Seen from Behind [verso]

Taddeo Zuccaro

1555

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Charles Gasc, 1860 (Lugt 1068); A.P.E. Gasc (Lugt 1131); (Yvonne Tan Bunzl, London, 1971); NGA purchase in 1972.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • Yvonne Tan Bunzl, Old Master Drawings, London, 1971, no. 55.

1974

  • NGA Recent Acquisitions 1974, no. 17.

1978

  • Master Drawings from the Collection of the National Gallery of Art and Promised Gifts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, p. 46.

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, 1989-1990, no. 11.

2007

  • Taddeo and Federico Zuccaro: Artist-Brothers in Renaissance Rome, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2007, no. 45.

2023

  • Looking Up: Studies for Ceilings, 1550-1800, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2023.

Bibliography

1971

  • Nicolson, Benedict. "Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions," The Burlington Magazine, 113, no. 824 (November 1971): 683-84, fig. 56.

1995

  • 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.

  • Gere, John A. "Taddeo Zuccaro: Addenda and Corrigenda," Master Drawings, 33, no. 3 (Autumn 1995): 300-301, no. 249-A.

1996

  • Michelangelo and His Influence, Drawings from Windsor Castle. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1996: 28, fig. 25.

1997

  • Romani, Vittoria. Primaticcio, Tibaldi e la questione delle "Cose del Cielo". Cittadella, 1997: 72 (note 27), 124.

1998

  • Acidini Luchinat, Cristina. Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cinquecento. (Milan, 1998), 1: 47, fig. 6.

Wikidata ID

Q64633027

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