Taddeo Zuccaro
1529-1566
Foundation of Orbetello
ca. 1563-1565
10 3/8 x 15 5/16 inches (264 x 391 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk; squared in black chalk, on paper; incised with stylus.
1973.28
Gift of Janos Scholz.
Notes
Watermark: none.
The drawing is a study by Taddeo Zuccaro for a fresco in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Around 1564, the Farnese family commissioned the artist to complete a fresco cycle left unfinished at the death of Francesco Salviati in 1563. The scene in the fresco represents the fictitious founding of the city of Orbetello in AD 1100 by Pietro Farnese, captain of the papal cavalry.
The drawing is a study by Taddeo Zuccaro for a fresco in the Sala dei Fasti Farnesiani in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome. Around 1564, the Farnese family commissioned the artist to complete a fresco cycle left unfinished at the death of Francesco Salviati in 1563. The scene in the fresco represents the fictitious founding of the city of Orbetello in AD 1100 by Pietro Farnese, captain of the papal cavalry.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at left, on altar, in pen and brown ink, by the artist, "COL[ONIA] / VRBE / TELL[I]".
Associated names
Lawrence, Thomas, Sir, 1769-1830, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Phillips, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938, former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Woodburn, Samuel, 1785 or 1786-1853 former owner.
Phillips, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner.
Fenwick, Thomas FitzRoy Phillipps, 1856-1938, former owner.
Rosenbach, A. S. W. (Abraham Simon Wolf), 1876-1952, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Selected references: Indianapolis 1954, no. 41; Cambridge 1962, 17, no. 49; Hamburg and Cologne 1963-64, no. 179; New Haven 1964, no. 55; Houston 1966, no. 55; Providence 1968, no. 6; Gere 1969, 167, under no. 108; 181, no. 150; Gere 1970, 127, no. 6; Washington and New York 1973-74, no. 8; Cheney 1982, no. 6; Fellows Report 1984, 188; Milwaukee 1989-90, no. 34; Acidini Luchinat 1998-99, 1: 250, 263, note 160; New York 2010, 92, under no. 26; Eitel-Porter, in New York 2019, 357-59, under no. 111.
J.A. Gere, "The Lawrence-Phillipp-Rosenbach 'Zucarro Album.'"
Master Drawings, VIII, 1970, 127, no. 6.
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. 8, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 188.
J.A. Gere, "The Lawrence-Phillipp-Rosenbach 'Zucarro Album.'"
Master Drawings, VIII, 1970, 127, no. 6.
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. 8, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Seventeenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1972-1974. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1976, p. 188.
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