The Feeding of the Five Thousand (recto); A seated figure, seen from behind, turning to the left (verso)

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Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice 1544-1628)
The Feeding of the Five Thousand (recto); A seated figure, seen from behind, turning to the left (verso)
dated '1621 genaro'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white, on light brown paper
9 7/8 x 16 1/8 in. (250 x 409 mm.)

Provenance

Zaccaria Sagredo (cf. L. 2103a), with associated inscriptions 'Palma' and 'G[iacomo]. P[alma]. n^o. 323.' on the mount. Anon. sale; Christie's, Monaco, 2 July 1993, lot 35.

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Lot Essay

A later version, with some differences but similar in layout and format, of a composition painted by Palma in 1614-16 for the choir of the Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo, Venice (S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, l'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. 437, fig. 619). Two further related drawings are in Budapest and at the Uffizi in Florence (S. Mason Rinaldi, op. cit., nos. D1 and D46).

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