Palma il Giovane
1544-1628
Self-Portrait with Allegorical Figures of Virtue and Perseverance
ca. 1597
11 3/4 x 8 7/16 inches (298 x 214 mm)
Pen and brown ink and wash, over black chalk, on laid paper.
I, 73
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.
Notes
Watermark: none.
Set in an elaborate decorative frame, this portrait is more formal than the self-portrait Palma Giovane made of himself at age fifty-eight (see IV, 82:1). Here, the artist is flanked by two allegorical figures: Virtue, holding a cornucopia, to the left, and Perseverance, reaching for a branch, to the right. The purpose of this drawing is not known, but it may have been intended as a frontispiece for a book or an album of the artist's drawings. -- Exhibition Label, from "Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso."
Set in an elaborate decorative frame, this portrait is more formal than the self-portrait Palma Giovane made of himself at age fifty-eight (see IV, 82:1). Here, the artist is flanked by two allegorical figures: Virtue, holding a cornucopia, to the left, and Perseverance, reaching for a branch, to the right. The purpose of this drawing is not known, but it may have been intended as a frontispiece for a book or an album of the artist's drawings. -- Exhibition Label, from "Life Lines: Portrait Drawings from Dürer to Picasso."
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed at lower right, in pen and brown ink, "palma"; at upper right, in pen and brown ink, "59"; on verso of mount, in pen and brown ink, probably by Richardson or an amanuensis, "Giacomo Palma di sua propria mano che lo diede a Nicolo Lanier / This on the back of the Dr. in Lanierþs own hand"; at lower center, in graphite, "2".
Associated names
Lanier, Nicholas, 1588-1666, former owner.
Gaignières, François-Roger de, 1642-1715, former owner.
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1739-1802, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865, former owner.
Palmerston, Emily Lamb, Viscountess, 1787-1869, former owner.
Ashley, Evelyn, 1836-1907, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Gaignières, François-Roger de, 1642-1715, former owner.
Lely, Peter, Sir, 1618-1680, former owner.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry Temple, Viscount, 1739-1802, former owner.
Palmerston, Henry John Temple, Viscount, 1784-1865, former owner.
Palmerston, Emily Lamb, Viscountess, 1787-1869, former owner.
Ashley, Evelyn, 1836-1907, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Morgan, J. P. (John Pierpont), 1867-1943, former owner.
Bibliography
Rhoda Eitel-Porter and and John Marciari, Italian Renaissance Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum, New York, 2019, no. 72.
John Marciari, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, New York, 2018, fig. 169, repr.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:73; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 1044; Schwarz 1971, 212, f1g. 7; Bloomington and elsewhere 1983-84, under no. 11n5; New York and Chicago 1994, 134-35, no. 120; Brown 2000, 113; Rearick 2002, 179n79; Whistler 2016, 178; New York and Washington 2018-19, 205.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 73, repr.
John Marciari, Drawing in Tintoretto's Venice, New York, 2018, fig. 169, repr.
Selected references: Fairfax Murray 1905-12, 1:73; Tietze and Tietze-Conrat 1944, no. 1044; Schwarz 1971, 212, f1g. 7; Bloomington and elsewhere 1983-84, under no. 11n5; New York and Chicago 1994, 134-35, no. 120; Brown 2000, 113; Rearick 2002, 179n79; Whistler 2016, 178; New York and Washington 2018-19, 205.
Collection J. Pierpont Morgan : Drawings by the Old Masters Formed by C. Fairfax Murray. London : Privately printed, 1905-1912, I, 73, repr.
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