Study for a Wall Decoration

ca. 1561

Federico Barocci Italian, 1535-1612

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Title Study for a Wall Decoration

Artwork Date ca. 1561

Artist Federico Barocci

Life Dates 1535-1612

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Italian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on blue laid paper

Dimensions Sheet: 9 1/2 × 8 9/16 inches (24.1 × 21.7 cm)

Classification Drawings

Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 34.138

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Inscriptions Inscribed, in brown ink, lower center: B | Federigo [indecipherable, Zuccheri?] Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso of backing sheet: N. 147 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right corner, verso of backing sheet: F. Zuccaro. Elève [indecipherable] | 1542 - 1609 Inscribed, in pencil, lower center, verso of backing sheet: Zucchero Federigo 1542 - 1609 [crossed out with pencil] Inscribed, in red chalk, lower left, verso of backing sheet: 115

Marks Stamp, in blue, verso: [unidentified collector, perhaps comte Rey de Villette (Lugt Suppl. 2200a)]

Provenance

unidentified collector, possibly comte Rey de Villette (Boulogne-sur-Seine, Paris, France). Hermann Voss (Berlin, Germany)

1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Alasko, Richard-Raymond. Religious Narrative in Sixteenth Century Rome. Exh. cat., Snite Museum of Art. Notre Dame, Indiana, 1983, no. 2.

Emiliani, Andrea. Federico Barocci (Urbino 1535-1612). Bologna, 1985, vol. 1: p. 19 (fig. 25).

Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, p. 31, no. 1, p. 17 (pl. i).

Pillsbury, Edmund P. and Louise S. Richards. The Graphic Art of Federico Barocci: Selected Drawings and Prints. Exh. cat., Yale University Art Gallery and Cleveland Museum of Art. New Haven and Cleveland, 1978, no. 4 (ill.).

Smith, Graham. "Two Drawings by Federico Barocci." Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 2/3 (1973) pp. 84-88 (fig. 2)

Smith, Graham. The Casino of Pius IV. Princeton, 1977, pp. 69-70 (fig. 55).

Olszewski, Edward. A Corpus of Drawings in Midwestern Collections. Sixteenth-Century Italian Drawings, vol. 1-2. Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2008, vol. 1, p. 28, cat. 24 (ill.).

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Federico Barocci, Study for a Wall Decoration, ca. 1561, pen and brown ink with brown wash, heightened with white, over black chalk on blue laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.138.