The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Associated Names
Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

The image shows two figures positioned outdoors on a natural surface. Both figures are shown fully from head to toe, in motion. One figure reaches outward with their arm, while the other figure's body is turned slightly away. Both figures have detailed facial features, with hair styled in loose curls. They are minimally clothed with fabric draped around their lower bodies. The background is plain with faint sketch lines hinting at a landscape.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash heightened with light gold gouache on brown washed laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 16.2 x 8.8 cm (6 3/8 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.20.8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Princes of Liechtenstein, Vienna (Lugt 4398); purchased 20 April 1948 through (Walter Felichenfeldt, Zurich) by Lessing J. Rosenwald, Jenkintown, PA;[1] gift to NGA in 1950.
[1] Rosenwald describes the acquisitions from Liechtenstein in Recollections of a Collector, 1976, p. 46-47.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1944

  • Tietze, Hans, and Erika Tietze-Conrat. The Drawings of the Venetian Painters in the 15th and 16th Centuries. New York, 1944: 224, no. 1222.

1966

  • Zeichnungen alter Meister aus Deutschem Privatbesitz. Exh. cat. Kunsthalle Bremen, 1966, 12, under no. 16.

1992

  • Birke, Veronika, and Janine Kertész. Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina, Vienna, 1994, 2: 895, under inv. 1688.

Inscriptions

upper left in brown ink: 48

Wikidata ID

Q64580060

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