Palma il Giovane

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Palma il Giovane
1544-1628
Christ Healing the Sick (Christ healing the Paralytic at the Pool of Bethesda, John 5:2-8). Verso: Sketches
ca. 1623
Pen and brown ink and wash, over red chalk, on paper; verso: pen and brown ink.
6 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches (154 x 264 mm)
Gift of Miss Felice Stampfle.
1976.50

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Watermark: none visible through lining.

Inscription: 

Inscribed at lower left, in pen and dark brown ink, in a hand resembling the "Reliable Venetian Hand", "Palma Giovane"; at lower right corner, in pen and brown ink, "36"; on verso of mount, at center, "our Savior Healing the Sick"; below this, in graphite, "44"; at lower right, in graphite, "A. 21072 [..] / 12; 51".

Provenance: 
P. & D. Colnaghi, London; from whom purchased in 1955 by Felice Stampfle, New York.
Associated names: 

Stampfle, Felice, former owner.

Bibliography: 

Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 281.

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