Sketch for a Baptism of Christ

Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Associated Names
Jacopo Palma il Giovane

Artist, Venetian, 1544 or 1548 - 1628

The image shows two figures, one standing and the other kneeling on a rock. The standing figure faces slightly left with their head turned towards the other figure. They have a muscular body and curly hair. The kneeling figure leans towards the standing figure with an arm extended above the other figure's head. This figure also has defined musculature and curly hair. Both figures appear minimally clothed in draped fabrics around their waists. The background consists of simple, abstract lines and shading on a textured surface, without identifiable environmental details.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash (heightened with white?) on brown washed laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 18.1 x 17.1 cm (7 1/8 x 6 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.20.9

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. 1223.

1966

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

1992

  • Birke, Veronika, and Kertész, Janine. Die italienischen Zeichnungen der Albertina. Vienna, 1994, 2: 895, under inv. no. 1688.

Inscriptions

upper right in brown ink: 33

Wikidata ID

Q64580061

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