The Sacrifice of Iphigenia

1670s

Giovanni Andrea Carlone

Artist, Italian, 1639 - 1697

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk, squared for transfer, on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 20.9 × 30.1 cm (8 1/4 × 11 7/8 in.)
    mount: 28.5 × 44.2 cm (11 1/4 × 17 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.163.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(La Mandragola di Matteo Crespi, Milan); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2019

  • Bober, Jonathan. "Genoese Baroque Drawings." National Gallery of Art Bulletin, No. 60(Spring, 2019): 29.

Inscriptions

by later hand, lower center of mount in graphite: GIOVANNI ANDREA CARLONE "Sacrifice of Iphigenia"

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