Attributed to Jacopo Palma, called Palma Giovane (Italian, c. 1548-1628)

Venus and Adonis

Details

Attributed to Jacopo Palma, called Palma Giovane (Italian, c. 1548-1628)
Venus and Adonis
oil on canvas
25½ x 40 in. (65 x 101.5 cm.)

Provenance

Ian MacGillivray, Edinburgh.

Literature

M. Kahr, 'Delilah', Art Bulletin, LIX, no. 3, September 1973, p. 292, note 37.

Exhibited

See website for exhibition history.

Kansas City, Nelson Gallery, Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, December 1958, no. 2 (as 'Attributed to Tintoretto').
Houston, Temple Emanu El, Festival of the Bible in the Arts, March 11-26 1961 (as 'Attributed to Tintoretto').
New York, Wildenstein, The Painter as Historian, 15 November-31 December 1962, no. 8 (as 'Attributed to Tintoretto').
Paris, L'Oeil Galerie d'Art, Tableaux italiens: XIV-XVII siècle, June-July 1973, no. 15.

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Lot Essay

The present painting relates to a drawing in pen and ink with brown wash, heightened with red and white chalk, which measures 8 1/3 x 13 1/3 in. (212 x 338 mm.). It was last recorded as with Arturo Cuellar, Zurich, in 1997 (see The Burlington Magazine, CXXXIX, no. 1128, March 1997, p. xiii).

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