* Jacopo Zucchi Florence circa 1540 - 1596 Rome

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Description

Jacopo Zucchi
the apotheosis of a female martyr saint, possibly apollonia
pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk, heightened with white, the arched top cut

Provenance

sale, London, Sotheby's, 24 February 1972, part of lot 122

Literature

Edmund Pillsbury, 'Drawings by Jacopo Zucchi', in Master Drawings, vol. XII, no. 1 (Spring 1974), p. 15; p. 29, note 56; p. 33; reproduced plate 15b

Catalogue Note

When he published this drawing, Edmund Pillsbury (loc. cit.) credited Rupert Hodge, the much esteemed former curator of the photo archives of the Witt Library, for independently recognizing it as the work of Zucchi. Dr. Pillsbury also wrote that as the angel seems to be holding a pair of pincers the subject may be St. Apollonia. A Martyrdom of St. Apollonia, similar in style and format, was in the collection of Julius Held (Pillsbury, op.cit., fig. 15a). Both drawings may have been intended for the same project, and can be dated to the 1580s.