Jacopo Zucchi

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Jacopo Zucchi

approximately 1541-approximately 1590

Design for the Catafalque of Grand Duke Cosimo I

1574

Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on paper; small mark in red chalk.

14 13/16 x 10 3/16 inches (376 x 259 mm)

Purchased as the gift of the Fellows.

1965.5

Inscription:

Inscribed at upper center, flanking the sarcophagus, in pen and brown ink, Jacom Zucchi; in the cartouche, in pen and brown ink, MAG COSMUS / ETRURIE; plan at upper right, in pen and brown ink, liberalita / Carita / pruden[cut off by edge of sheet] / iustizia; plan beneath this, in pen and brown ink, (cavalieri)? / [creatione]? / trionfo / coronatione; lowest plan, in pen and brown ink, Pisa / carara / Siena / fiorenza; at center, near left edge, in black chalk, S4; on verso of lining, in graphite, 71 (encircled); D 28044EX (Colngahi stock number).
Watermark: knight holding a cross, inside a shield, running figure with cross, centered on chain lne.

Provenance:

Count Lanfranco di Campello, Rome (according to note on photograph); Thomas Agnew and Sons, Ltd., London; P. and D. Colnaghi & Co., London (Exhibition of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Sculpture, P. and D. Colnaghi & Co. Ltd., London 19 February to 17 March 1965, no. 25)

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Associated names:

Morandini, Francesco, 1544-1597, Formerly attributed to.
Campello, Lanfranco di, count, former owner.

Bibliography:

Selected references: Borsook 1965-66, 50-53 (as Poppi); Fellows Report 1967, 106-7 (as anonymous); Pillsbury 1969, 64, note 22; Notre Dame and Binghampton 1970, 81, no. D26 (as attributed to Zucchi); Cleveland 1971, no. 60; Madison 1973, no. 14, (as attributed to Zucchi); Pillsbury 1974, 16-18; Oberlin and Elsewhere 1991-92, 204-205, no. 58, (as Zucchi); Aurigemma 2007, 119-120.
Eve Borsook, The Mural Painters of Tuscany, London, 1960, 2nd rev. ed., Oxford, 1980, pp. 50-53, repr. fig.11 (Francesco Morandini, il Poppi).
A review of acquisitions, 1949-1968 / Pierpont Morgan Library. New York : The Library, 1969, p. 151.
The Age of Vasari, University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, Notre Dame, Indiana, and the University Art Gallery, State University of New York at Binghamton, 1970, p. 81, no. D26 (attributed to Jacopo Zucchi).
Edmund Pillsbury, Florence and the Arts: Five Centuries of Patronage, exh. cat., Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, 1971, no. 60 (n.p.), repr.
Arthur R. Blumenthal, Italian Renaissance Festival Designs, exh. cat., Elvehjem Art Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1973, no. 14, repr. (attributed to Jacopo Zucchi).
Edmund Pillsbury, "Drawings by Jacopo Zucchi", Master Drawings, 12, no. 1, Spring 1974, pp. 16-18, 30 note 64, and 33, pl. 18.
Larry J. Feinberg with an essay by Karen-edis Barzman, From Studio to Studiolo. Florentine Draftsmanship under the First Medici Grand Dukes, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine; and the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 1991-92, pp. 204-205, no. 58, repr. (Jacopo Zucchi).
Maria Giulia Aurigemma, "Un corpus perduto? Sui disegni di Jacopo Zucchi", Studiolo, 5, 2007, pp. 119-120, 134.

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