Allegorical Figures on Mount Parnassus: Study for the etching Triumph of Painting
1612–50
Medium
Pen and brown ink, over black chalk. The sketch of Pegasus in black chalk only. Framing lines in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
13-1/4 x 9-7/16 in. (33.7 x 24 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harry G. Sperling Fund,1980
Accession Number
1980.12
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About the Artist
Pietro Testa · 1612–1650
Pietro Testa was born in Lucca in 1612 and, in accordance with the conventions of Italian artistic training, made his way to Rome while still young. There he studied under two of the leading painters of the early seventeenth century: Domenichino, from whom he absorbed a taste for classical restraint and narrative clarity, and Pietro da Cortona, whose more exuberant Baroque manner offered a contras...