Abraham's Sacrifice (recto and verso)
Giuseppe Passeri
n.d.
Medium
Red chalk on buff laid paper (recto) and pen and brown ink, with red chalk (verso), tipped onto cream laid paper
Dimensions
19.6 × 14.8 cm (7 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.)
Classification
chalk
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112845
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Giuseppe Passeri · 1654–1714
**Giuseppe Passeri (1654–1714)** was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active throughout his career in his native city of Rome. Born on 12 March 1654, he was the nephew of the painter and biographer Giovanni Battista Passeri, who served as his first master before he entered the studio of the leading Roman artist Carlo Maratta. Passeri worked firmly within the late Baroque tradition, produ...