Disputation of Saint Catherine of Alexandria

probably c. 1570

Federico Zuccaro

Artist, Roman, 1542/1543 - 1609

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink and brown wash over graphite heightened with white, squared in graphite, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.4 x 42.3 cm (13 1/8 x 16 5/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1981.89.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Salisbury; (H. Shickman Gallery, New York); purchased 1967 by David Rust, Washington, D.C.; purchased 1981 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1968

  • Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, H. Shickman Gallery, New York, 1968, no. 14.

1983

  • Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., September 1983.

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. 64.

Bibliography

1969

  • Dessins de Taddeo et Federico Zuccaro. Exh. cat. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 60, under no. 73.

1983

  • Gere, John A., and Philip Pouncey. Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. London, 1983, 190-91, under no. 298.

2012

  • "Old Master & Early British Drawings & Watercolours." Christie's, London, 6 December 2012, under lot 10.

Inscriptions

in later hand, lower center: Fred. Zucchero

Wikidata ID

Q64561242

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