Angels escorting souls to heaven, with the Holy Trinity above

Details

Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1550-1628)
Angels escorting souls to heaven, with the Holy Trinity above
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on buff paper, an arch indicated at the top, the corners cut
11 x 6 ¾ in. (28.1 x 17.1 cm)

Provenance

Doge Dandolo, Venice (according to the 1972 auction catalogue).
Richard Duncan Beresford-Jones (1903-2000), Essex.
with Colnaghi, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, London, 1965, no. 4.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 16 November 1972, lot 91.
with Colnaghi, Exhibition of Old Master Drawings, London, 1974, no. 42.

Literature

S.M. Rinaldi, 'Disegni preparatori per dipinti di Jacopo Palma il Giovane', Arte Veneta, XXV, 1972, pp. 105-107, 110.
S.M. Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane: L'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. D 55, fig. 640.

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Lot Essay

This is a study for the large canvas (measuring 250 x 180 cm) of the same subject, and of only slightly altered composition, in Santa Maria Assunta, Venice (Rinaldi, op. cit., no. 436, fig. 639). The main difference between the picture and the drawing is the absence of The Holy Trinity in the picture and the addition of a tree trunk lower left. A study for the angel and boy in the foreground was sold at Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1970, lot 30.
We are grateful to Stefania Mason Rinaldi for her assistance in cataloguing this drawing.

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