Wine Pitcher Carried Aloft by Three Satyrs / Woman Seated on the Ground
Mid-XVIcentury. Grey-brown wash, Grey ink, Grey-brown ink, Chalk ground, Pencil on yellow paper.Not on display
The design for the pitcher is both witty in its invention and impressive in its execution. It is perhaps the study on the verso (sadly cut down from a larger composition), which provides the stronger clue to Taddeo Zuccaro´s distintictive handling.