Jacopo Palma, called Palma Il Giovane

Estimate

7,000 - 9,000 GBP

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Description

Jacopo Palma, called Palma Il Giovane
St. Jerome in a rocky landscape
Pen and brown ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk, heightened with white, on beige-pink paper;
a point of the brush sketch of a skull on the verso;
bears numbering in black chalk, lower centre: 96. and several old letters in pen and brown ink on the verso: B B G N⁰, and pencil numbers: 41-17

Provenance

With Alister Mathews, Bournemouth, from whom purchased in July 1955 by
Ralph Holland

Exhibited

Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Old Master Drawings, no. 14;
Newcastle upon Tyne, Hatton Gallery, Italian and other drawings, 1500-1800, no. 27, reproduced pl. IV

Catalogue Note

As stated in the 1974 exhibition catalogue, the attribution to Palma was due to A.E. Popham. No direct connection with a painting has yet been found, although Ralph Holland suggested that it is quite close, but in reverse, to Palma's painting of the subject in Lord Faringdon's collection, Buscot Park (fig. 1).¹ Palma must have treated this very popular subject several times in his career.

1. See S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, L'opera completa, Milan 1984, p. 284, fig. 238