drawing
- Museum number
- 1895,0915.658
- Description
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The Holy Family with St Catherine of Alexandria and St Clare; the Virgin lifting a veil from Christ's cradle, St Joseph behind with a finger to his lips, the saints kneeling at r, buildings through a window beyond
Pen and brown ink, with brown wash, heightened with white, on grey-blue paper
- Production date
- 1557-1609
- Dimensions
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Height: 185 millimetres
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Width: 270 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Lit.: J.C. Robinson, 'Descriptive Catalogue of Drawings by the Old Masters, forming the Collection of John Malcolm of Poltalloch, Esq.', London, 1876, no. 217; J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 316
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The corresponding entry in the Resta MS reads: "N.N. Scolaro dì Taddeo, di cui Servi in Caprarola era della Terra di Caprarola". We do not know who this unspecified native of Caprarola and pupil of Taddeo Zuccaro may have been, but his identity - if indeed he ever existed - is of only academic interest, since the drawing is in fact a characteristic example of Federico Zuccaro, to whom it was attributed by Robinson. Its purpose is unknown, but the amorphous shorthand suggests a late date.
A weaker version, not by Federico himself, is in the Louvre (11338, traditionally attributed to Passignano).
Literature: JCR 217
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1895
- Acquisition notes
- Cosway, Thane, Ford and Esdaile all according to Malcolm catalogue
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1895,0915.658
