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Jacopo Zucchi
approximately 1541-approximately 1590
The Foundation of Cosmopoli
1565
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper.
10 x 13 1/8 inches (255 x 334 mm)
Purchased in honor of S. Parker Gilbert on the Fairfax Murray Society Fund, with additional contributions from the Fellows Acquisition Fund, Seymour and Helen-Mae Askin, Diane A. Nixon, the Sunny Crawford von Bülow Fund 1978, Andrea Woodner, Herbert Kasper, Lawrence and Lucy Ricciardi, Janet Mavec, the Gilbert & Ildiko Butler Family Foundation, and Robert Loper.
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Inscription:
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "39".
Provenance:
Pierre Crozat (1661-1740), Paris, (Lugt 3612; his numbering, 39, at lower right); Christie's, London, 6 July 1976, lot 34; Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 5 July 2013, lot 244; W.M. Brady & Co., Inc., New York.
Associated names:
Crozat, M. (Pierre), 1661-1740, former owner.
Holland, Ralph, 1917-2012, former owner.
Bibliography:
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 99.
Selected references: Newcastle upon Tyne 1982, no. 14; Härb 2005, no. 59.
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