drawing
- Museum number
- 1946,0713.1537
- Description
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Christ seated on a cloud with angels on either side, study for a fresco; looking downwards with his arms outstretched
Pen and brown ink and brown wash, with lines indented
Verso: The same subject
Black chalk, on brown prepared paper
- Production date
- 1557-1609
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres
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Width: 291 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The fresco is illustrated in C. Acidini Luchinat, 'Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del cinquecento', Milan, 1998, I, p. 268.
Lit.: J.A. Gere and P. Pouncey, 'Italian drawings in the BM, Artists working in Rome', London, 1983, no. 293
Gere & Pouncey 1983
The drawing bore no traditional attribution. The studies on both sides are for the upper part of the fresco of 'The Dormition of the Virgin' on the l.-hand side wall of the Pucci Chapel in SS. Trinità dei Monti (see 1949,0812.9).
Literature: Gere, p. 124, note. 1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1946
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1946,0713.1537