Studies for Thieves on the Cross (recto), Sketch of Figures (verso)
Pietro Testa
n.d.
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with traces of red chalk and graphite (recto), and graphite and red chalk (verso), on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
18.6 × 17.6 cm (7 3/8 × 6 15/16 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
112802
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...