A preparatory study by Federico Zuccaro for the high altarpiece in San Lorenzo in Damaso, Rome, a work commissioned from his older brother Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1566) but actually executed by Federico and completed in 1568, nearly two years after Taddeo's death. The finished altarpiece differs from this project in that the upper half of the composition is occupied by a representation of the Coronation of the Virgin (see Gere 1966, fig. 2). John A. Gere has pointed out that Federico has combined in the present drawing two motifs studied separately by Taddeo in surviving drawings that relate to this project: the appearance of the Virgin to the four saints (inspired by Raphael's "Madonna di Foligno," 1512), and the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence. Finished "modelli" by Federico, corresponding in every detail with the painting, are in the Louvre, Chatsworth, and Bremen. The final altarpiece was engraved by Cornelis Cort and published by Lorenzo Vaccari in 1576 (see acc. no. 51.501.3320).
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Possibly Pierre Crozat (French); Antoine Joseph Dézallier d'Argenville (French); Sir Charles Greville (British), on verso; George Guy Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick (British); Christie's, London- Warwick sale, May 20-21, 1896, part of no. 453("The Circumcision - black and white chalk; and the Martyrdom of St. Lawrence with a representation of various saints 2."); Mrs. D. Appleton(according to J.A. Gere); Sotheby's, London- sale July 9, 1973, no. 68 (not repr.); Bought from Sotheby's, London for £700 by John Steiner (American)
Milwaukee Art Museum. "Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600," November 17, 1989–January 14, 1990.
National Academy Museum. "Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600," March 13, 1990–April 29, 1990.
John Gere "Two of Taddeo Zuccaro's last commissions, completed by Federico Zuccaro. 2: The High Altar-piece in San Lorenzo in Damaso." in Burlington Magazine. vol. 108, July 1966, fig. no. 10, p. 341, ill.
John Gere Dessins de Taddeo et Federico Zuccaro Exh. cat., Paris, Musée du Louvre, 42nd Exposition du Cabinet des Dessins, 1969. Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1969, p. 54.
Jacob Bean "Departmental Accessions: Drawings." in Annual Report of the Trustees of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1, 1976 - June 30, 1977. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, no. 107, New York, 1977, p. 45.
Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turčić 15th and 16th Century Italian Drawings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1982, cat. no. 275, fig. no. 275, p. 269-71, ill.
John Gere, Philip Pouncey Italian Drawings in the Department of Prints and Drawings in The British Museum. Vol. 5: Artists Working in Rome, c. 1550 to c. 1640. with the ass. of Rosalind Wood, London, 1983, p. 182.
James Mundy, Elizabeth Ourusoff De Fernandez-Gimenez Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550 - 1600 Exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (November 17, 1989 - January 14, 1990), and National Academy of Design, New York (March 13 - April 29, 1990). Milwaukee., 1989, pp. 196-97, no. 61, ill.
Cristina Acidini Luchinat Taddeo e Federico Zuccari: Fratelli pittori del Cinquecento. 2 vols., Milan, Rome, 1999, Volume 1, pp. 274, 282 (note 41), pp. 274, 282.
Carel van Tuyll van Serooskerken The Italian Drawings of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries in the Teyler Museum. Haarlem, 2000, p. 318, under no. 313.
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