Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child

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JACOPO NEGRETTI, CALLED PALMA IL GIOVANE (VENICE 1548-1628)
Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white on light brown paper
10 ¼ x 7 ½ in. (26.4 x 19.3 cm)

Provenance

Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680), London (L. 2092).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby’s, London, 10 March 1977, lot 14.
Duke Roberto Ferretti (1923-2005), Castelferrato.
Anonymous sale; Christie’s, London, 7 July 1992, lot 140.
with Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, New York.
Gerald Bronfman (1911-1986) and Marjorie Bronfman, née Schechter (1917-2012), Montreal; by descent to
Corinne Bronfman (1947-2022), Washington DC; by descent to the present owners.

Literature

J. Bentini, Disegni della Galleria Estense di Modena, Modena, 1989, p. 154.

Exhibited

Toronto, The Art Gallery of Ontario, and New York, The Pierpont Morgan Library, Italian Drawings from the Collection of Duke Roberto Ferretti, 1985, no. 17, ill. (catalogue by D. McTavish).

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Lot Essay

Two other drawn studies of Saint Cristopher carrying the Christ child by Palma are known. One is in the Galleria Estense in Modena (inv. 780; see J. Bentini, Disegni della Galleria Estense di Mondena, Modena, 1989, pp. 154-155) and the other is in Budapest (inv. 2259; see Disegni Veneti del Museo di Budapest, exhib. cat., Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1965, no. 36, ill.). While no painting of this subject survives, 17th Century sources record in the church of Santa Maria dei Crociferi, in Venice, an altarpiece by Palma representing the Saint Christopher (S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane. L’opera completa, Milan, 1984, p. 184).

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