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Palma Giovane (1549-1628)
Figure studies 1575 - 1600
Pen and ink | 27.2 x 17.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904803
Palma Giovane (1549-1628)
Figure studies 1575 - 1600
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A sheet of figure studies, the most detailed of which is a figure seen from behind, possibly holding a standard. The two sketches on the right appear to be copies from figures from Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco in the Sistine Chapel. Inscribed at upper centre in a hand of the seventeenth century, ‘Palma’.
H. Tietze and E. Tietze Conrat, Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries, New York 1944, no. 1249.
Provenance
Listed in George III’s Inventory A, c.1800, p. 85, ‘Scuola Veneziano’, among ‘22 to 28. Giacomo Palma’.
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Pen and ink
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27.2 x 17.8 cm (sheet of paper)
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