Federico Zuccaro

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Federico Zuccaro

approximately 1540-1609

Canonization of St. Hyacinth by Pope Clement VIII

1600

Pen and brown ink and wash, with lead white opaque watercolor, over black chalk, on paper prepared with a blue wash; squared in black chalk; verso: edges reinforced with strips of paper.

10 3/8 x 14 3/4 inches (261 x 375 mm)

Gift of János Scholz.

1973.30

Notes:

Watermark: none.
Federico's final undertaking before his departure from Rome in 1603 was the fresco decoration of the chapel of Saint Hyacinth in Santa Sabina in Rome, commissioned by Cardinal Girolamo Berniero for the Jubilee of 1600 and completed by February of that same year. The present drawing is preparatory to the large fresco depicting the "Canonization of Saint Hyacinth by Pope Clement VIII" that occupies the entire right wall of the chapel.

Inscription:

Inscribed on verso on added strip of paper, at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "115(or 119)"; mathematical computations in graphite at lower left.

Provenance:

Ottaviano Zuccaro?; Dukes of Savoy, Aosta, Turin (no mark; see Lugt S. 47a); János Scholz, New York (no mark; see Lugt S. 2933b).

Associated names:

Zuccaro, Ottaviano, approximately 1505- former owner.
Savoy, Dukes of, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.

Bibliography:

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 34 and p. 186.
Oberhuber, Konrad, and Dean Walker. Sixteenth Century Italian Drawings From the Collection of János Scholz. Washington, D.C. : National Gallery of Art ; New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1973, no. 12, repr. (includes full bibliography and exhibtions).

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