A Standing Angel and two Cherubs

Ascribed to Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) Italian

ca. 1566

Not on view

Lively drawn with pen and ink, brush, brown wash and highlighted with white gouache, this drawing by Federico Zuccaro was possibly conceived for the figure of the Angel that appears at the upper left of his altarpiece with ‘The Coronation of the Virgin with the Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence’ in the Roman church of San Lorenzo in Damaso (ca. 1566). This connection was first proposed by John Gere, while the attribution of the drawing to Zuccaro is due to Jacob Bean (Curatorial Files, April 1962). Right after its acquisition in 1887, the sheet was published as a work by Fra Angelico in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Handbook of 1895 (no. 697). (F.R.)

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Title: A Standing Angel and two Cherubs
Artist: Ascribed to Federico Zuccaro (Zuccari) (Italian, Sant'Angelo in Vado 1540/42–1609 Ancona)
Date: ca. 1566
Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, highlighted with white gouache
Dimensions: 9 1/2 x 4 3/4in. (24.1 x 12.1cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Cephas G. Thompson, 1887
Object Number: 87.12.27
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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