Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (1544-1634)
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Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (1544-1634)

The Adoration of the Shepherds, flanked by monastic saints

Details
Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (1544-1634)
The Adoration of the Shepherds, flanked by monastic saints
pen and brown ink, watermark device
3 3/8 x 11 5/8 in. (86 x 301 mm.)
Provenance
Castelbarco.
Purchased from H.M. Calmann, London, 1958, part of no. 12 of his catalogue (as Veronese).

Lot Essay

Possibly an early study for Palma's painting of 1595-1600 now in the Staatsgalerie, Würzburg, S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, l'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. 612. fig. 245.
As with the previous lot, an attribution to Veronese has been suggested by Dr. Stefania Mason Rinaldi, while Dr. Richard Cocke agrees with the attribution to Palma (on the basis of a photograph).

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