DrawingsItalian16th century

Study for the Last Judgment in the Cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore, Florence

c.1574

Artists

Federico ZuccaroArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink, brown and pink wash, white opaque watercolor, and black chalk on cream antique laid paper

Culture

Italian

Century

16th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

29.4 × 42.8 cm (11 9/16 × 16 13/16 in.)

Provenance

Nicholas Lanier (Lugt 2885, Lugt 4699?), London. Sir Peter Lely (Lugt 2094), London. Eugène Rodrigues (Lugt 897), Paris; through [Hôtel Drouot, Paris, November 28-29 1928, lot 251]. Josef Mantler, Stockerau, Austria, sold through [Gerda Bassenge, Berlin, May 31 2002, lot 5480]. [Arturo Cuéllar and Corinne Nathan, Zürich, Switzerland (Lugt 3439)]. [Christie's, London, July 5 2017, lot 12] sold; to [W. Mark Brady, New York, 2017], sold; to Harvard Art Museums, 2022

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