Ascanio Sforza
Circle of Federico Zuccaro · n.d.
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What the record supports
"Ascanio Sforza" is a drawing attributed to the Circle of Federico Zuccaro, created in Italy. The medium is red and black chalk on tan laid paper, measuring 8.5 × 9.6 cm (3 3/8 × 3 13/16 in.). It is classified as a chalk drawing and held in the Prints and Drawings department as part of The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection.
The work is undated, and there is no artist authority record provided for Federico Zuccaro or his circle. The provenance for "Ascanio Sforza" is not available in the supplied data.
The drawing has been documented in scholarly literature, specifically in "Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection" (1997), pages 265-66, no. 346.
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Literature
Published references
- 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. 265-66, no. 346 (ill.).
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