Lot Essay
Possibly related to the central figure of the picture of Charity interceding for the Souls in Purgatory, painted in 1600 as part of a cycle for the Scuola di Santa Maria della Giustizia e di San Gerolamo, Venice, S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, L'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. 574, fig. 316. The verso could be a study for one of the struggling figures of the four pictures of the Sinners in the Flames of Purgatory of the same cycle, S. Mason Rinaldi, op. cit., nos. 318, 324-6, figs. 577 and 578-80.