Sacrifice of Abraham

Not on View

Medium

pen and brown ink with gray wash over black chalk on darkened paper

Dimensions

overall: 24.4 x 35.1 cm (9 5/8 x 13 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Rosenwald Collection

Accession Number

1943.3.8884

Artists / Makers

Alessandro Allori (artist) Florentine, 1535 - 1607

Image Use

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Inscription

unknown hand lower left in ink: Aless. Allori; upper center verso in brown ink: Alessandro Allori

Provenance

Said to have come from the collection of Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh Abbey, Warwick, and from Lionel K. Robinson, London (according to a note in the file written by Fred Cain); purchased in 1941 by Lessing J. Rosenwald as part of a group of 39 drawings; gift to the NGA in 1943.

Associated Names

Leigh, of Stoneleigh Abbey, Lord
Robinson, Lionel K.
Rosenwald, Lessing Julius

Exhibition History

1985: Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.

1988: Italian Renaissance Drawings, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1988, no cat.

Bibliography

1990: Chappell, Miles. "Drawing in Seventeenth Century Florence." Drawing 12, no. 3 (Sept.-Oct. 1990): 53-54, 57, note 3, fig. 2.

1991: Giovannoni, Simona Lecchini. Alessandro Allori. Turin, 1991: 293, under no. 158, fig. 380.