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    Saint Catherine in Prison Converting the Empress Faustina to Christianity, Flanked by Saints Saturnius and Simon
    Federico Zuccaro. Saint Catherine in Prison Converting the Empress Faustina to Christianity, Flanked by Saints Saturnius and Simon, 1570/71. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00006146

    Saint Catherine in Prison Converting the Empress Faustina to Christianity, Flanked by Saints Saturnius and Simon

    by Federico Zuccaro

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    Inscriptions

    Inscribed lower right in pen and brown ink: “Tade Zuccaro”

    Provenance

    John MacGowan (second half of 18th century), Edinburgh [Lugt 1496]. Sold, Thomas Philipe, London, Jan. 26, 1804, lot 809. William Young Ottley (1771–1836), London. Sold, Thomas Philipe, London, June 6, 1814, lot 1488. Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [Lugt 2445]; Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London, from 1830; sold, Christie’s, London, June 4, 1860, part of lot 1074, to Sir Thomas Philipps; by descent to Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick. Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 1930; Philip H. and A. S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia. The British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 11, 1990, lot 41. Sold Christie’s, New York, Jan. 28, 1999, lot 36, to John A. Bross; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2014.

    Exhibition history

    London, The Lawrence Gallery, "One Hundred Original Drawings by Zucchero, Andrea deal Sarto, Polidore da Caravaggio, and Fra Bartolomeo," Apr. 1836.

    Publications

    John A. Gere, Mostra di disegni dell’Zuccari (Florence, 1966), under no. 59. John A. Gere, “The Lawrence Philipps-Rosenbach Zuccaro Album,” Master Drawings VIII:13 (1970), p. 129, pl. 8. Anna Melograni, “Il cantiere cinquecentesco di S. Caterina dei Funari e le pitture della cappella Cesi,” Storia dell’arte 67 (1989), pp. 219–39, no. 9 (ill.). E. James Mundy, Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550–1600 (Milwaukee, 1989), p. 203, fig. 33. Louise Smith Bross, The Church of Santo Spirito in Sassia: A Study of the Development of Art, Architecture, and Patronage in Counter-Reformation Rome, Ph.D. dissertation University of Chicago, 1994, pp. 373 and 885. William M. Griswold and Linda Wolk-Smith, Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings in New York Collections (New Work, 1994), under no. 84. Bert W. Meijer, Maestri dell’Invenzione (Florence, 1995), under no. 72. Barbara Wisch and Diane Cole Ahl (eds.), Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 280–97, pl. 63.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Federico Zuccaro / Italian, 1540/41–1609
    Date
    1570/71
    Medium
    Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white gouache, on blue laid paper
    Dimensions
    Sight: 19.6 × 39.5 cm (7 3/4 × 15 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    pen and ink drawings
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of John A. Bross in memory of Louise Smith Bross
    Accession no.
    2014.1147

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