1948.26: Study for "Sacrifice of Iphigenia" (recto and verso)

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

Permissions

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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

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