Susanna and the Elders

Date1583-1643

Artist Sigismondo Coccapani (Italian, 1583 - 1642)

CultureItalian

MediumPen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk, squared for transfer in red chalk with framing lines in brown ink, on paper

DimensionsSheet: 10 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (25.7 x 19.4 cm)
Mount: 10 3/4 x 7 7/8 in. (27.3 x 20 cm)

Credit LinePurchase, Suzette Morton Davidson, class of 1934, Fund

On View

Not on view

Period17th c

Classification(s)

Drawings and Watercolors

InscribedInscribed (on verso): (a letter written by the artist); (copy on a piece of paper pasted onto the backing sheet): Del Cigoli

BibliographyMiles L. Chappell, ‘Proposals for Coccapani’, Paradigma, June 1990, p.190, fig.108 (as Circle of Cigoli; Sigismondo Coccapani?); London, Christie’s, Old Master Drawings, including 17th Century Italian Drawings from the Ferretti Di Castelferreto Collection, 2 July 1996, p.23, under lot 12; Miles Chappell, ‘The Assumption of the Virgin and the Holy Family in Joseph’s Workshop by Sigismondo Coccapani’, Notes in the History of Art, Summer 2004, p.19; Linda Wolk-Simon and Carmen C. Bambach, An Italian Journey. Drawings from the Tobey Collection: Correggio to Tiepolo, exhibition catalogue, New York, 2010, p.144, under no.43, note 5; Emmanuelle Brugerolles, ed., Le Baroque à Florence, exhibition catalogue, Paris, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, 2015, pp.61-62, under no.15, fig.2 (entry by Emmanuelle Brugerolles and Constance Guigui); Elisa Acanfora, Sigismondo Coccapani. Ricomposizione del catalogo, Florence, 2017, p.61, p.148, under no.18, p.215, no.D154, illustrated p.62, fig.103 and p.234, pl.153.ProvenanceSigismondo adn Giovanni Coccapani, Florence (Lugt 2729); By descent to Regolo Silverio Coccapani, Florence; Dispersed with the rest of the Coccapani collection in the mid-17th century; Dame Una Pope-Hennessy, London; Her son, Sir John Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, London, New York and Florence; His posthumous sale, New York, Christie's, 10 January 1996, lot 23; Drue Heinz, London and New York.

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