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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1948.26
People
Pietro Testa, Italian (Lucca, Italy 1611 - 1650 Rome, Italy)
Title
Study for "Sacrifice of Iphigenia" (recto and verso)
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
c. 1640-1642
Places
Creation Place: Europe, Italy, Tuscany, Lucca
Culture
Italian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297392

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red chalk on cream antique laid paper lightly washed with brown ink
Dimensions
18.5 x 23.8 cm (7 5/16 x 9 3/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: verso of mount: Pietro Testa (?)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Meta and Paul J. Sachs, gift to Fogg, 1948.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
Accession Year
1948
Object Number
1948.26
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Elizabeth Cropper, The Ideal of Painting: Pietro Testa's Dusseldorf Notebook, Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ, 1984), p. 43-44; fig. 43
  • Elizabeth Cropper, Pietro Testa 1612-1650: Prints and Drawings, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, 1988), cat. no. 61, p. 125
  • James Harper, Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, exh. cat., Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2001), cat. no. 12, repr. (recto and verso), pp. 13, 16

Exhibition History

  • Verso: The Flip Side of Master Drawings, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 05/19/2001 - 08/12/2001

Verification Level

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