Jupiter Fighting the Giants. Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, Florence ca. 1540-1596 Rome). Dimensions: Overall: 11 1/4 x 8 5/16 in. (28.6 x 21.1 cm). Date: 1540-96.This drawing by Jacopo Zucchi, of marked Northern influence, was already correctly recognized in 1999 by Edmund P. Pillsbury, who published monographic studies on the artist, at the time of his sale at auction (Sotheby's, New York, January 27, 1999, lot 22). The subject of the sheet, taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (1:152-8) and Fasti (5:35-44), evokes the taste for mythological paintings of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, Zucchi's main patron in Rome after 1572; a large corpus of preparatory drawings of this later time by Zucchi is known. The Metropolitan drawing, on the beautifully embossed gilt mount of John Talman (1677-1726), the eminent British collector who erroneously inscribed the name of Elseheimer on the mat (an understandable mistake of attribution given the figural vocabulary of Zucchi), appears to relate to th

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Jupiter Fighting the Giants. Artist: Jacopo Zucchi (Italian, Florence ca. 1540-1596 Rome). Dimensions: Overall: 11 1/4 x 8 5/16 in. (28.6 x 21.1 cm). Date: 1540-96.This drawing by Jacopo Zucchi, of marked Northern influence, was already correctly recognized in 1999 by Edmund P. Pillsbury, who published monographic studies on the artist, at the time of his sale at auction (Sotheby's, New York, January 27, 1999, lot 22). The subject of the sheet, taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses (1:152-8) and Fasti (5:35-44), evokes the taste for mythological paintings of Cardinal Ferdinando de' Medici, Zucchi's main patron in Rome after 1572; a large corpus of preparatory drawings of this later time by Zucchi is known. The Metropolitan drawing, on the beautifully embossed gilt mount of John Talman (1677-1726), the eminent British collector who erroneously inscribed the name of Elseheimer on the mat (an understandable mistake of attribution given the figural vocabulary of Zucchi), appears to relate to th

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