Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1548-1628)

The Presentation in the Temple

Details

Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1548-1628)
The Presentation in the Temple
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, with touches of oiled chalk and white oil
8¾ x 14 1/8 in. (22.2 x 35.8 cm.)

Provenance

J. Richardson. Sr. (L. 2184).
T. Philipe (L. 2451).
Anonymous sale; Karl und Faber, Munich, 28 November 1974, lot 356 (as Venetian School, second half 17th Century).
Herbert List (according to the 1977 catalogue).

Literature

S.M. Rinaldi, Drawings by Jacopo Palma il Giovane from the Collection of the late Mr. C.R. Rudolf, London, 1977, pp. 11-2.
S.M. Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane: L'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. D 185, fig. 58.

Sale room notice

Please note that this lot has been withdrawn.

Lot Essay

A study, with differences, for the picture now at the Gemäldegalerie, Dresden (S.M. Rinaldi, op. cit., 1984, no. 91, fig. 57). The painting was previously in the Church of Santa Maria dell'Umiltà in Venice, whose name until 1615 was the Church of the preti di Gesù. It can be identified as one of the ‘quattro historie in due Cappelle della Vita della Madonna’ in that church, described by Borghini in his Il Riposo from 1584 (R. Borghini, Il Riposo, Florence, 1584, p. 559). Based on Borghini’s text, Rinaldi has suggested that the paintings and related drawings were executed in the summer of 1582 (see S.M. Rinaldi, op. cit., no. 91, p. 84).

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