A Woman Putting on Her Stockings (recto); Bacchus Alighting from a Chariot (verso)
Framed: 21 x 17 x 1 inches (53.34 x 43.18 x 2.54 cm)
Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 7-April 4, 1965, no. 14, as Lady Putting on Her Stockings (recto).
Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, May 6-June 5, 1983, no. 4, as Lady Putting on Her Stockings (recto).
Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600, The Milwaukee Art Museum, WI, November 17, 1989-January 14, 1990; National Academy of Design, New York, March 13-April 29, 1990, no. 77, as Lady Putting on her Stockings, verso: A Female Figure Alighting from a Chariot.
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, June 23-August 18, 1996; The Cummer Museum and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL, September 20-November 29, 1996; The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, December 21, 1996-March 2, 1997, no. 15, as A Woman Painting on her Stockings (recto); A Female Figure Alighting from a Chariot (verso).
Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Permanent Collection, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 12-September 6, 1998, no cat., as A Woman Painting on her Stockings (recto); A Female Figure Alighting from a Chariot (verso).
The Human Body, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, November 30, 2010-June 5, 2011, no cat., as A Woman Painting on her Stockings (recto).
Federico Zuccaro was a native of Florence who was one of the finest draftsmen of the later 16th century, as well as being an important arts administrator. The figure has a relaxed and informal pose which looks forward to the works of the French artist Edgar Degas in the later 19th century. The use of two different colored chalks adds to its charm.
With H.M. Calmann, London, by 1955-September 23, 1959;
Purchased from Calmann by Milton W. McGreevy (1903-1980), Shawnee Mission, KS, September 23, 1959-1961 [1];
His gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1961.
NOTES:
[1] H. M. Calmann invoice, September 23, 1959, MS007 Milton McGreevy Papers, NAMA Archives.
“Drawings Collection of Milton McGreevy,” Bulletin (The Nelson Gallery and Atkins Museum) vol. 4, no. 6 (March 7-April 4, 1965): 16, as Lady Putting on Her Stockings (recto).
Old Master Drawings Selected from the Collection of Milton McGreevy: Gifts and Bequest to Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1982), unpaginated, as Lady Putting on Her Stockings (recto).
James E. Mundy and Elizabeth Ourusoff de Fernandez-Gimenez, Renaissance into Baroque: Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari, 1550-1600, exh. cat. (Milwaukee, WI: Milwaukee Art Museum, 1989), 45, 234-35, (repro.), as Lady Putting on her Stockings, verso: A Female Figure Alighting from a Chariot.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 156, (repro.), as Lady Pulling on Her Stockings (recto).
Iris Cheney, “Renaissance into Baroque. Italian Master Drawings by the Zuccari 1550-1600,” Master Drawings 32, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 66, as Lady Putting on her Stockings.
Roger Ward, Dürer to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 72-73, (repro.), as A Woman Painting on her Stockings (recto); A Female Figure Alighting from a Chariot (verso).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 65, (repro.), as A Woman Painting on her Stockings (recto).
