Study for Male Allegorical Figure
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on cream laid paper prepared with light-brown wash
Dimensions
26.7 × 17.1 cm (10 9/16 × 6 3/4 in.)
Classification
ink with wash
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
82040
About the Artist
Taddeo Zuccaro · 1529–1566
Taddeo Zuccaro, born on September 1, 1529, in Sant'Angelo in Vado within the Duchy of Urbino, emerged from a modest artistic family as the son of the little-known painter Ottaviano Zuccaro, in whose workshop he received his initial training. Encouraged by the local artist Pompeo da Fano, who served briefly as his teacher according to Giorgio Vasari, Taddeo relocated to Rome around age 14, where he...