Saint Matthew the Evangelist and the Angel (recto), Study for a Pietà (verso)

ca. 1560

Not on view

Artists: Unidentified (Italian, active 16th century), Giovanni Battista Naldini (1537–1591)
Title: Saint Matthew the Evangelist and the Angel (recto), Study for a Pietà (verso)
Date: ca. 1560
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: Pen and brown ink and brown wash over red chalk with black chalk on laid paper (recto), Black chalk with traces of red chalk (verso)
Dimensions: Sheet: 170 x 226 mm (6 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)
Credit Line: Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Accession Number: 1963.24.11r-v

(Provenance under review, Furio Rinaldi, 2025) Father Sebastiano Resta (1635-1714), his annotation 'Schizzo del / Zuccari" (see Rinaldi's note on provenance); Joseph Green Cogswell (1786-1871), his catalogue, no. 137; Mortimer Leo Schiff (1877-1931); his sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, June 24, 1938, possibly contained in Lot 1 (Cogswell Albums 1, 2 and 3); acquired by a dealer named Spencer, sold to Moore S. Achenbach (1878-1963); bequest to the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, 1963.
G.S. Hellman, Notes on Some Original Drawings by the Old Masters. The Collection formed by Joseph Green Cogswell (1786-1871), New York 1915, no. 217 (as “St.Luke” by Federigo Zuccaro); E. Gunther Troche, "Die Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts in San Francisco", Cultural Echo / Kultur Echo, 1962, no. 1, p. 14, ill. (as Domenico Beccafumi); Walter Vitzthum, "Review of National Gallery of Scotland. Catalogue of Italian Drawings by Keith Andrews," The Burlington Magazine, 111, no. 800 (Nov., 1969), pp. 690 (as G.B. Naldini).

Currently on view