The Crucifixion

Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower right) JACOBVS PALMA. F.; (on cross) INRI

[Italico Brass, Venice, until 1954; sold to Lehman]; Robert Lehman, New York (1954–57)

Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Five Centuries of European Painting," May 16–October 26, 1963, unnumbered cat. (p. 15).

Nashville. Vanderbilt University. "Recent and Desired Acquisitions," December 1, 1968–February ?, 1969, no catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Venetian Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum," May 1–September 2, 1974, no catalogue.

Theodore Rousseau Jr. "Reports of the Departments: Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 17 (October 1958), pp. 55, 58, ill. p. 57.

Burton B. Fredericksen and Federico Zeri. Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections. Cambridge, Mass., 1972, pp. 154, 294, 609.

Federico Zeri with the assistance of Elizabeth E. Gardner. Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School. New York, 1973, p. 46, pl. 52, date it to the artist's mature period, noting Mannerist elements derived from Tintoretto and artists of the Roman school and a palette derived from Titian's late works; state that the size and vertical format indicate that it must have been made as an altarpiece; identify the figure in the bottom right corner as Adam.

Nicola Ivanoff and Pietro Zampetti. "Jacopo Negretti detto Palma il Giovane." I pittori bergamaschi dal XIII al XIX secolo: il Cinquecento. Bergamo, 1979, vol. 3, p. 592, no. 398, ill. p. 634, as formerly private collection, Venice, with no current location; wrongly identify it with a work described by Ridolfi (1648, part 2, p. 197) in the church of Santa Maria della Celeste, Venice; date it to the 1580s.

Stefania Mason Rinaldi. "Una monografia su Jacopo Palma il Giovane." Arte veneta 34 (1980), pp. 244, 246 n. 3, fig. 4.

Stefania Mason Rinaldi. Palma il Giovane: l'opera completa. Milan, 1984, pp. 96–97, 113, no. 177, fig. 224, calls it a replica of an altarpiece (no. 11) in the church of Saint Mark, Augsburg, dating both works about 1595.

Katharine Baetjer. European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Artists Born Before 1865: A Summary Catalogue. New York, 1995, p. 83, ill.

Alberto Cadoppi. Il quadro ritrovato: La "Crocifissione" di Palma il Giovane del Met di New York un tempo in San Rocco a Reggio Emilia. Felina, Reggio Emilia, 2022, pls. 1, 3 (color), figs. 1, 2, 30 (detail), argues that Palma il Giovane received the commission for the altarpiece in 1606–7 from the Confraternity of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia and completed the painting between 1607 and 1609; it was displayed in the Church of San Rocco in Reggio Emilia from 1657 until the 19th century.