About This Artwork

Taddeo Zuccaro
Italian, 1529-1566

Sheet of Studies for the Blinding of Elymas, Sacrifice at Lystra, and a Holy Family, c. 1558

Pen and brown ink, and brush and red chalk and brown wash, on ivory laid paper
386 x 274 mm
Inscribed verso, upper left, in pen and brown ink: "favi-4"
Gift of Robert B. Harshe, 1928.196R

McCullagh & Giles 350

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Regina, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, "A Selection of Italian Drawings from North American Collections," January 16-February 15, 1970, p. 20, cat. 10 (ill.) (as Sheet of Studies); traveled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts, March 5-April 3, 1970.

St. Louis Art Museum, Mo., "Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections, February 25-April 16, 1972, n.p., cat. 12 (ill. recto) (cat. by Nancy Ward Nielson).

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Old Master Drawings From American Collections," April 29-June 13, 1976, p. 94, cat. 113 (ill.) (cat. by Ebria Feinblatt).

The Cleveland Museum of Art, "The Draftsman's Eye: Late Italian Renaissance Schools and Styles," March 6-April 22, 1979, p. 105, cat. 82 (ill.) (cat. by Edward J. Olszewski, with the assistance of Jane Glaubinger).

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings at The Art Institute of Chicago," cat. by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to Washington, National Gallery of Art, 1979-80.

Notre Dame, Ind., University of Notre Dame, "Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome," September 11-October 23, 1983, pp. 75-76, cat. 50 (ill.) (cat. by Richard-Raymond Alasko).

"Oltre Raffaello: aspetti della cultura figurativa del cinquecento romano," 1984, pp. 113-14 (cat. by Stefania Macioce), hors cat.

Milwaukee Art Museum, "Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600," November 17, 1989-January 14, 1990, pp. 88-91, cat. 15, pl. 14 (cat. by E. James Mundy, et al.); traveled to New York, National Academy of Design, March 13-April 29, 1990.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago," April 10-July 22, 1997.

Publication History

John A. Gere, Taddeo Zuccaro: His Development Studied in his Drawings (Chicago, 1969), pp. 73-74, 76-77, and 138, no. 22, pls. 94 (recto) and 95 (verso).

John Gere, Il manierismo a Roma (Milan, c. 1971), pp. 17 and 83, pl. 17 (recto, as Foglio di Studi).

Harold Joachim, Italian drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 79, nos. 3A1-3A2 (ill. microfiche).

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, 1979), pp. 36-37, no. 28, pls. 36-37.

John A. Gere, Some Observations on the Practical Utility of Connoisseurship, in Drawings Defined, edited by Walter Strauss and Tracie Felker (New York, 1987), p. 301, fig. 10 (recto).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), pp. 268-70, no. 350 (ill.), and pl. 27.

Cristina Acidini Luchinat, Taddeo e Federico Zuccari, fratelli pittori del Cinquecento (Milan, 1998), vol. I, pp. 70-72, fig. 16.

Ownership History

Possibly William Young Ottley (1771-1836), London (Lugt 2663); possibly his sale, T. Philipe, London, June 20, 1814, lot 1492 (as Taddeo Zuccaro); Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769-1830), London, embossed stamp (Lugt 2445) recto, lower left; Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London (Lugt 2584); his sale of Sir Thomas Lawrence collection, Christie's, London, June 4, 1860, lot 108 (as Michelangelo). Robert B. Harshe (1879-1938, Director of the Art Institute from 1911 to 1928) Chicago; given to the Art Institute, 1928.