Provenance
Bartolomeo Cavaceppi (1716–1799), Rome, to Willem Anne Lestevenon (1750–c. 1830), Paris, 1788/91; to Jean-Baptiste-Florentin-Gabriel de Meryan, Marquis de Lagoy (1764–1829), Aix-en-Provence, 1805 [(Lugt 1710), as no. 111 of Lagoy’s manuscript inventory drawn in 1809–10 (“Ecole romaine ep. 3. Federico Zuccaro […] des collections Cavaceppi, Levenston”)]; to Samuel Woodburn (1786–1853), London; to Sir Thomas Lawrence (1769–1830), London [Lugt 2445]; to Samuel Woodburn; sold, Christies, London, June 4, 1860, as part of lot 1074 (as Zucchero (F. and T.)—a most interesting series of 20 drawings representing Incidents in the Life of Taddeo Zuchero […], followed by 53 specimens of their works […]). Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792¬–1872); by descent to his grandson, Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick (1856–1938); to Dr. A.S.W Rosenbach (1876–1952), Philadelphia, 1930; to the Philip H. and A.S. W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia, 1950; to the British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; sold, Sotheby’s, New York, Jan. 11, 1990, lot 51 (as Jacopo Ligozzi). Thomas Williams Fine Art, London, 1991. Sold by W. M. Brady & Co., New York, Jean and Steven Goldman, 2013; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.
Accession Number
222191
Medium
Brush and brown washes and pen and brown ink, heightened with lead-white gouache (partially discolored), on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Sight: 33.4 × 41 cm (13 3/16 × 16 3/16 in.)
Classification
brush and wash
Credit Line
Gift of Jean and Steven Goldman