Lot 27
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Jacopo Palma Il Giovane Venice 1544 - 1628

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Description

  • Jacopo Palma, called Il Giovane
  • sheet of figure studies for a baptism of christ
  • pen and brown ink

Provenance

So-called Sagredo-Borghese Collection (bore inscription on the old mount: G.P.No. 177)

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen, 1970, cat. no. 65, reproduced p. 70, fig. 44

Literature

Hans Tietze and E. Tietze-Conrat, The Drawings of the Venetian Painters, New York 1970, p. 199, no. 821

Catalogue Note

The figures in the centre of the sheet could be a mother and child, perhaps for figures on the riverbank at the Baptism.