Jacopo Negretti, called Palma Il Giovane
Venice cerca 1548-1628
Pen and brown ink and grey wash over traces of black chalk;
bears inscription in pen and brown ink lower right: del Palma;
212 by 141 mm.
The above study for St. Francis does not appear to be directly related to any of Palma’s known surviving paintings. A notable scholar compares this composition with the painting of The Stigmata of St. Francis in San Rocco, Bergamo, executed in 1595. See S. Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, L’opera Completa, Milan 1984, p. 76, no. 28, reproduced p. 277, no. 222.
Another drawing by Palma of the same subject and stylistically very similar to the present sheet was sold, London, Christie’s, 14 April 1992, lot 104.