JACOPO ZUCCHI
Florence c. 1540-1596 Rome
The Foundation of Cosmopoli (?)
Inscribed, lower right, 39
Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk, on white paper, within black ink framing lines
10 x 13 1/16 inches
254 x 332 mm
Provenance
Pierre Crozat (Lugt 3612, his numbering, 39), Paris
Anonymous sale: London, Christie’s, 6 July 1976, lot 34, illustrated (as Stradanus)
Ralph Holland (1917-2012), Newcastle upon Tyne,
Thence by descent (sale: London, Sotheby’s, ‘Galleria Portatile’: The Ralph Holland Collection, 5 July 2013, lot 244, illustrated
Exhibitions
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian Drawings, 1525-1750, 1982, cat. no. 14, plate II B, illustrated (catalogue by R. Holland)
Literature
F. Härb in Disegno, giudizio e bella maniera, Studi sul disegno italiano in onore di Catherine Monbeig Goguel, Milan, 2005, p. 110, cat. no. 59, p. 111, illustrated
THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM, NEW YORK