ATTRIBUTED TO TADDEO ZUCCARO, URBINO 1529 - 1566 ROME, 16TH CENTURY OIL ON COPPER Pietà between angels holding flame torches, held in a period carved giltwood frame. (sight 24cm x 33cm, frame 41.5cm x 51.5cm) Provenance: two wax seals verso of panel, the single red wax seal bearing the arms of The Kingdom of The Two Sicilies, this suggests the painting may have been in Naples, the other black wax seal with initials ‘FJ’ might be for CFJ Beausaire, Art Patron who left a bequest of 40 paintings to The Walker Gallery (went by the initials ‘FJ’) N.B. Zuccaro's easel pictures are less common than his decorative frescoes, a small painting on copper of The Adoration of The Shepherds, formerly in The Collection of James II (now at Hampton Court Palace)

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