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

Federico Zuccaro · 1570/71

Provenance

Ownership history

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.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

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

Literature

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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