Currently not on view
Palma Giovane,
mid–1750s (?)
after Alessandro Vittoria, Italian, 1525–1608
Drawing after sculpture was a common practice in Venetian workshops beginning in the sixteenth century. The eighteenth-century painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo kept casts of sculpture in his studio for teaching and study purposes. These included copies of a sixteenth-century bust of the painter Palma Giovane by Alessandro Vittoria. Once thought to be by Giovanni Battista, this drawing is now attributed to his son Domenico, who emulated his father’s characteristic technique of red and white chalks on blue paper. The effect is lifelike, with the light falling from above so as to create a varied play of shadows on the sculpted surface.
Information
mid–1750s (?)
- Lili Fröhlich-Bume, "Notes on some works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo", Burlington magazine 72, no. 419 (Feb., 1938): p. 82-83+86-87., p. 82; pl. I.B.
- George P. Mras, "Some drawings by G. B. Tiepolo", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 15, no. 2 (1956): p. 39-59., fig. 18, p. 56 (illus.)
- George Knox, "Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo at Princeton", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 23, no. 1 (1964): p. 2-28., p. 28, no. 86; p. 21 (illus.)
- Jacob Bean, Italian drawings in the Art Museum, Princeton University; 106 selected examples, (New York: October House, 1966)., no. 45
- K. E. Maison, "The Tiepolo drawings after the portrait dust of Palma Giovane by Alessandro Vittoria", Master drawings 6, no. 4 (Winter, 1968): p. 392-394+448-460., p. 392-394; pl. 37
- Felton Gibbons, Catalogue of Italian Drawings in The Art Museum, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)., Vol. 1: p. 139, no. 448 (illustrated in Vol. 2 under the same catalog number)
- George Knox, Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: a study and catalogue raisonné of the chalk drawings, (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980)., p. 283, no. M622
- Important old master drawings: Thursday, December 9, 1982 ..., (London: Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., 1982)., no. 66
- Adelheid M Gealt, Italian portrait drawings, 1400-1800, from North American collections, (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Art Museum, 1983)., cat. no. 4, p. 22-23, 116; p. 22 (illus.)
- Bernard Aikema, Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, (New York: Pierpont Morgan Library; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Art Museums, 1996)., p. 44, cat. no. 10; p. 45 (illus.)
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Katherine T. Brown, The painter's reflection: self-portraiture in Renaissance Venice, 1458-1625, (Firenze: L.S. Olschki Editore, 2000).
, fig. 82, no page number - 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. 243, app. no. 50 (illus.)
