Sacrifice of Abraham

Alessandro Allori

Artist, Florentine, 1535 - 1607

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

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

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

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

  • Accession

    1943.3.8884

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q64534020

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