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| Federico Zuccaro Portrait Drawing possibly a portrait of Federico's elder brother, Taddeo Zuccaro 1560s Morgan Library |
Today's scholars and museum curators are reluctant to endorse traditional attributions of identity in old master drawings. The drawing above has traditionally been identified as a portrait of the fresco painter Taddeo Zuccaro (1529-1586) made by his prolific younger brother Federico Zuccaro (1541-1609). The fact that a scholarly institution at the level of the Morgan Library should be willing to entertain this identification certainly encourages a measure of faith in the tradition. Taddeo had established himself in Rome by the late 1540s. Federico joined him there and became a partner in his thriving workshop about ten years later. Taddeo's own surviving drawings (as below) are nearly all linked to known fresco projects.
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Study of women 1550s Morgan Library |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Study of soldiers 1563 Morgan Library |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Flight of angels (with feather) 1556-58 Rijksmuseum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Mythological figures 1561 National Gallery, Washington, DC |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Nymphs 16th century Metropolitan Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Nude study (recto) 1550 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Nude study (verso) 1550 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Conversion of Paul 1558-65 Getty |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro St. Paul restoring Eutychus to life 1557-58 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Martyrdom of St. Paul 1557-58 Metropolitan Museum |
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| Taddeo Zuccaro Joseph & Potiphar's Wife 16th century Metropolitan Museum |