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Study for the Funerary Monument of Girolamo Canal,
ca. 1577
This elaborate sheet is a preparatory study made by Palma Giovane for the wall painting that once embellished the sculpted funerary monument of Girolamo Canal in the church of SS. Giovanni e Paolo in Venice. Canal was a Venetian naval hero who distinguished himself in numerous battles against Turkish fleets in the Mediterranean.
Palma’s decoration was barely legible by the eighteenth century, and no traces of it survive today. The wall painting was, however, described in written sources as incorporating the figures of Mars and Neptune, of seated prisoners (signifying Canal’s victories against the Turks), and of Fame trumpeting on a golden horn. A distinctive feature of this drawing is the ochre wash brushed onto the paper; this anticipates the monochromatic yellow palette employed in the final work.
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ca. 1577
From “Old Master Paintings and Drawings” Colnaghi catalogue: Allessandro Ballarin dates drawing around 1579-1580. (See reference Bib. 4116);
C. R. Rudolf, stamp (L. 2811b) verso, lower right, in black; his sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet, London, July 4, 1977, lot 1 (See reference BIb. 4753); Colnaghi, London; Jeff Soref
- Stafania Mason Rinaldi, "Tre momenti documentati dell'attività di Palma il Giovane: part 2: 1592: La decorazione ed affresco della Casa del Vittoria", Arte veneta, rivista di storia dell'arte 1975 29 (1976): p. 197-204., p. 201
- Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1977. Drawings by Jacopo Palma, Il Giovane from the collection of the late Mr. R.C. Rudolf: sold by order of the executors by Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., sale code INGRES. 4 July 1977, London., p. 8, lot 1
- Old master paintings and drawings: [exhibition] Colnaghi, June 19-August 3, 1979, (London: P. & D. Colnaghi, 1979)., no. 56 (xerox of entry in files)
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1981", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 41, no. 1 (1982): p. 16-31., p. 28
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Stefania Mason Rinaldi, Palma il Giovane, L'opera completa, (Milano: Alfieri Gruppo Editoriale Electa, 1984).
, p. 158, no. D100; fig. 8; p. 183 (for discussion of lost fresco) - Laura Giles, Lia Markey, Claire Van Cleave, et. al., Italian Master Drawings from the Princeton University Art Museum, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2014)., p. 44, cat. no. 17; p. 45 (illus.); p. 46 (verso illus.); p. 257-258, app. no. 86; p. 258 (illus.)
