Raffaellino da Reggio

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Raffaellino da Reggio

1550-1578

The Apparition of the Angel to St. Joseph

ca. 1576

Pen and brown ink and wash, over red chalk, on laid paper.

15 x 11 1/8 inches (381 x 282 mm)

Purchased in honor of Charles E. Pierce, Jr's tenure as director by the Visiting Committee to the Department of Drawings and Prints through the generosity of Ildiko Butler, Diane A. Nixon, Andrea Woodner, Hamilton Robinson, Jr., Joan Taub Ades, Clement C. Moore II, Jayne Wrightsman, David M. Tobey, Eugene V. Thaw, George L.K. Frelinghuysen, Seymour and Helen Mae Askin, Catherine G. Curran, Melvin R. Seiden, Hubert and Mireille Goldschmidt, and Wheelock Whitney III.

2007.80

Inscription:

Inscribed at lower left in pen and brown ink, "Zuchero."

Provenance:

Sir Robert Ludwig Mond (1867-1938), London (Lugt Suppl. 2813a); possibly by descent to W. D. Austin (According to Yvonne Tan Bunzl, Master Drawings, London, 1996, no. 6); sale, Sotheby's, London, 4 July 1988, lot 17; Yvonne Tan Bunzl (dealer), London; private collection; Yvonne Tan Bunzl (dealer), London; from whom acquired.

Associated names:

Mond, Robert, 1867-1938, former owner.
Bunzl, Yvonne Tan, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, donor.

Bibliography:

Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 120.
Selected references: Borenius and Wittkower 1937, no. 275; Collobi 1939, 13-14; Faldi 1951, 332n5; Gere and Pouncey 1983, 145; Washington and Parma 1984, no. 114; London 1996, no. 6; Edinburgh 1999, 173n4; Marciari 2006, 190; Bigi Iotti and Zavatta 2008, 81; Ottawa 2009, no. 106; Palazzi 2010, 49; Bolzoni 2016, no. A32.
Tancred Borenius and Rudolf Wittkower, Catalogue of the Collection of Drawings by the Old Masters formed by Sir Robert Mond, London, 1937, no. 275,repr., pl. XLIX (as Federico Zuccaro).
Licia Collobi, "Disegni di Raffaellino da Reggio," Critica d'Arte, vol. 4, April-December 1939, pp. 13-14, fig. 2 (as Raffaellino).
I. Faldi, Contributi a Raffaellino da Reggio, in "Bollettino d'arte," 36, 1951, p. 332, under note 5, fig. 5.
John A. Gere and Philip Pouncey, Italian drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum: artists working in Rome c. 1550 to c. 1640, London, 1983, p. 145.
Diane DeGrazia, Correggio and His Legacy: Sixteenth-Century Emilian Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Wasington, and Galleria Nazionale, Parma, 1984, no. 114, p. 341, repr. (study for the fresco).
Washington, National Gallery of Art, and Parma, Palazzo della Pilotta, Correggio and His Legacy, March-July 1984, no. 114, ill.
Yvonne Tan Bunzl, Master Drawings, London, 1996, no. 6, repr.
Michael Clarke et al., The Draughtsman's Art: Master Drawings from the National Gallery of Scotland, exh. cat., National Gallery of Scotland, 1999, under no. 9, p. 173, note 4.
John Marciari, "Raffaellino da Reggio in the Vatican", The Burlington Magazine, March 2006, p. 190, and note 12 (final preparatory study).
Alessandra Bigi Iotti and Giulio Zavatta, Raffaellino da Reggio. Tracce di una biografia artistica, 2008, p. 81, fig. 42.
David Franklin, ed., From Raphael to the Carracci: The Art of Papal Rome, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2009, pp. 338-339, no. 106, repr.

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