The Vision of Saint Angelus
c. 1645
Pietro Testa
Artist, Italian, 1612 - 1650
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old mount
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
sheet: 35.5 × 22.5 cm (14 × 8 7/8 in.)
mount: 49.1 × 32.2 cm (19 5/16 × 12 11/16 in.) -
Accession Number
2018.178.7
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Cabinet Destouches; St. Maurice; Bourlat (these three according to inscription by G. J Constantin); (Guillaume Jean Constantin, Paris; Lugt 3000). (sale, Galerie Bassenge, Berlin, 27 May 2016, no. 6515); Professor Ann Sutherland Harris, Pittsburgh; (sale, Christie's, New York, 30 January 2018, no. 42, unsold); gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
by later hand in graphite, lower center in mount: Pietro Testa; by later hand, lower left of mount in graphite: P. Testa / TS (in monogram in a circle; similar to Lugt 2370 but handwritten); ZO397; by later hand, in brown ink on verso in tablet: 36 pietre teste / Ct. Destouches St. Maurice / et Bourlat; by later hand, lower verso in pen and brown ink: No. 18. pietre Teste inv. fecit