Seated Doctor of the Church Reading (Saint Ambrose or Saint Gregory)

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Artist: Jacopo Palma the Younger (Italian, Venice ca. 1548–1628 Venice)
Date: 1600
Medium: Black chalk, highlighted with white chalk, on blue paper faded to gray-green
Dimensions: 7 13/16 x 6 5/8in. (19.9 x 16.8cm)
Type: Drawing
Classification: Drawings
Department: Drawings and Prints
Credit line: Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880
Accession no.: 80.3.417

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The Crucifixion
Jacopo Palma the Younger
Painting
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00015500
Studies for Four Figures (recto); Composition Sketches for Groupings of Figures on Clouds (verso)
Jacopo Palma the Younger
1600–14 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00018336
Studies of Horsemen and Study of a Figure for a Deposition (recto); Sketch for an Entablature (verso)
Jacopo Palma the Younger
1548–1628 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020474
Figure Studies: The Arrest of Christ?, Christ and the Canaanite Woman, Seated Male Figures, and Head of a Child (recto); Studies of an Arm, and of the Heads of an Old Man and Young Woman (verso)
Jacopo Palma the Younger
1548–1628 · Drawing
Museum collection · via the Metropolitan Museum of ArtAT-00020475

Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.