The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Studies of Saint Sebastian, an old man reading a book and other figures (verso)

Details

Jacopo Negretti, called Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1550-1628)
The Adoration of the Shepherds (recto); Studies of Saint Sebastian, an old man reading a book and other figures (verso)
pen and brown ink, brown wash
11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. (28.9 x 21.2 cm)

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, 13-15 June 1960, lot 164, where acquired by Robert Landolt.

Exhibited

Zurich, Graphische Sammlung ETH, Zwiegespräch mit Zeichnungen. Werke des 15. bis 18. Jahrhunderts aus der Sammlung Robert Landolt, 2013-2014, no. 39, ill. (catalogue entry by M. Matile).

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Lot Essay

Jacopo Palma treated the Adoration of the Shepherds in several paintings, including one in the church of Santi Nazaro e Celso in Verona, and one recorded on the Milan art market (S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane. L’opera completa, Milan, 1984, p. 94, fig. 1, no. 595, fig. 446). Two drawings in the same technique also show the group of angels descending from heaven and the shepherds framing the composition in the foreground (formerly in the C.R. Rudolf collection; see ibid., figs. 246-247).

We are grateful to Stefania Mason Rinaldi for confirming the attribution to Palma il Giovane on the basis of a photograph and for suggesting a date of circa 1600.

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