The Sacrifice of Abraham

c. 1640/1642

Pietro Testa

Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1650

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    plate: 29.6 × 24 cm (11 5/8 × 9 7/16 in.)
    mount: 40 × 27.1 cm (15 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.113.24

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 2

1988

  • Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa 1612 - 1650: Prints and Drawings. Philadelphia, 1988: no. 71.

Inscriptions

lower right in image: Petrus Testa fec.; by later hand, upper left on mount: 18 x 23 1/2; by later hand, lower center of mount in graphite: B. P. Gr. XX: 215. No. 2

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