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Christ Consigning the Keys to St. Peter

Palma il Giovane
1544-1628

Christ Consigning the Keys to St. Peter

11 x 7 3/4 inches (281 x 196 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, with lead white opaque watercolor, partly oxidized, on blue-gray paper.
1982.49

Gift of Janos Scholz.

Notes
Watermark: none visible through lining.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right in pen and brown ink, "palma 1625"; on the mount at lower left, just beneath the drawing, in pen and brown ink, possibly by Mariette, "Jacopo. Palma. Vechio"; last word cancelled and inscribed beside it, in graphite, "/ Giovane"; at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "École Venitienne"; on verso of mount, at upper left, in pen and brown ink, "No[o superscript] 31 (cancelled)"; at upper center, in pen and brown ink, "3. D. L. 60 / Notre Seigneur Donnant Les Clefs à St Pierre / Dessin à la plume lavé d'encre de la chine / sur papier gris -; No[o superscript]. 8 - - 0-10-6 "; in pencil, "J. Sch / N.Y. 1950 ".
Associated names
Caylus, Anne Claude Philippe, comte de, 1692-1765, former owner.
Mariette, Pierre Jean, 1694-1774, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Venetian Drawings, 1600-1800. Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco. Berkeley : Gillick, 1960, no. 46 (includes previous bibliography and exhibitions).
The Life of Christ : Drawings from the Janos Scholz Collection : Italian Drawings from the 16th through the 18th Century. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Art Gallery, 1964, no. 46.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 285.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department