The Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

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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

    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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