Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (1544-1628)

Saint Anthony Abbot asking the Centaur the way

Details

Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (1544-1628)
Saint Anthony Abbot asking the Centaur the way
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, watermark fleur-de-lys on three mounts in a cartouche, a small area lower left made up
220 x 264 mm.

Provenance

The Sagredo-Borghese Album (L. 2103a), with related number 'G.P. no. 143' (verso, laid down).
Samuel Woodburn; Christie's, 4 June 1860, part of lot 1074 (60gns. for the album to Sir Thomas Phillipps).
Sir Thomas Phillipps, by descent to
Thomas Fitzroy Fenwick.
Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach, 1930.
Philip H. and A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation, Philadelphia.
The British Rail Pension Fund, 1978; Sotheby's New York, 11 January 1990, lot 52.
Cabinet Italien, Christie's New York, 28 January 1999, lot 7.

Literature

J.A. Gere, 'The Lawrence-Phillipps-Rosenbach Zuccaro album', Master Drawings, 1970, VIII, pp. 136-7, no. 34, fig. 7.

Sale room notice

This lot has been withdrawn

Lot Essay

A drawing of the same subject, but with the composition reversed, is in the National Gallery of Scotland, K. Andrews, Catalogue of Italian Drawings, Cambridge, 1968, I, p. 85, no. D1616, II, fig. 595. The saint is shown at the age of ninety on the way to visit Saint Paul the Hermit, as recorded in the Golden Legend.

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