Live Auction 17081Old Master and British Drawings and Watercolours Including Works from the Collection of Jean Bonna
Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1550-1628)
Lot 39 PROPERTY OF THE LATE PROFESSOR ERIC STANLEY

Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1550-1628)

The apotheosis of a monk

Closed2 July 2019

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GBP 3,000

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Jacopo Negretti, Palma il Giovane (Venice circa 1550-1628)
The apotheosis of a monk
with inscription 'Palma'
black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash heightened with white on brown paper, with pen lines indicating an octagon
9 ¼ x 9 7/8 in. (23.5 x 25.1 cm)

Anonymous sale; Christie's, Paris, 17 March 2005, lot 16.

Specialist note

A similar group with the apotheosis of a saint surrounded by putti can be found in a picture showing Saint Zechariah, executed in 1599 for San Zaccaria, Venice (S.M. Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane: L'opera completa, Milan, 1984, no. 486, fig. 284).
We are grateful to Stefania Mason Rinaldi for her assistance in cataloguing this drawing and for confirming the attribution.