Study for a Kneeling Man

Attributed to: Palma Giovane (Jacopo Negretti) (in circa 1576-1581)

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Specifications

Title	Study for a Kneeling Man
Material and technique	Black chalk, heightened with white, on gray-blue paper, laid down
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 240 mm Width 174 mm
Artists	Attributed to: Palma Giovane (Jacopo Negretti) Previously attributed: Domenico Tintoretto (Domenico Robusti)
Accession number	I 51 (PK)
Credits	Loan Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (former Koenigs collection), 1940
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Creation date	in circa 1576-1581
Watermark	unknown, vision hampered by the backing paper (vH, 5/6P)
Inscriptions	''Dom.co tintoret[...]' (r.o., pen and brown inkt), '30' (verso, center, pencil, underlined), 'Domo Tintoretto', 'Tintoretto' (verso)
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Mark	Z. Sagredo (L.2103a, inv. I.T.no: 27)
Provenance	Zaccaria Sagredo (1653-1729, L.2103a, inv. 'I.T.no: 27'), Venice; - ; Franz W. Koenigs (1881-1941, L.1023a), Haarlem, acquired in 1927 (Domenico Tintoretto); D.G. van Beuningen (1877-1955), Rotterdam, acquired with the Koenigs Collection in 1940 and donated to Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
Exhibitions	Venice/Florence 1985, no. 45; Rotterdam 2009 (coll 2 kw 4)
Internal exhibitions	De Collectie Twee - wissel IV, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009)
Research	Show research Italian Drawings 1400-1600
Literature	Tietze/Tietze-Conrat 1944, p. 262, no. 1820 (Tintoretto workshop, resembling work by a pupil under the influence of Palma Giovane); Aikema/Meijer 1985, no. 45, ill. (Palma Giovane); Rossi 1986, pp. 68-70 (Palma Giovane)
Material	Blue paper > Coloured paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Technique	Highlight > Painting technique > Technique > Material and technique
Geographical origin	Italy > Southern Europe > Europe
Place of manufacture	Venice > Veneto region > Italy > Southern Europe > Europe

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Entry catalogue Italian Drawings 1400-1600

Author: Albert Elen

This drawing was listed as a work by Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) when it was in the Sagredo Collection in Venice in the second half of the seventeenth century (judging by the inscription ‘I.T.’). Later it was twice annotated with an attribution to his son Domenico (1560-1635), and classified as workshop.

The resemblance to drawings ‘by a pupil of Jacopo under the influence of Palma Giovane’, as remarked by Tietze/Tietze-Conrat (1944), led to the firm attribution to Palma by Meijer (1985). He recognised it as a preliminary study for the man seated at the lower left in Palma’s early painting The Presentation of Jesus in the Temple (1576-81), which was made for the Scuola dei Mercanti, but removed in 1806 and now in the Chiesa della Croce in Venice.^[1] This connection and attribution were confirmed soon afterwards by Rossi (1986).

An almost exact copy of our drawing, without the highlights and on a slightly larger sheet of white paper, was sold at auction in 2017.^[2]

Footnotes

^[1]Mason Rinaldi 1984, no. 364, fig. 59. According to her the painting is in poor condition.

^[2]Sale Paris (Tajan) 24.05.2017, lot 11, ill. (measuring 270 x 190 mm).

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