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Study for the Pietà

Giulio Cesare Procaccini

1604

Medium

Charcoal, highlighted with white gouache, squared in charcoal, on blue paper

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Dimensions

9 5/16 x 5 7/8in. (23.6 x 15cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Harry G. Sperling Fund, 1982

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Giulio Cesare Procaccini

1574–1625 • Papal States

Painter and sculptor, son of Ercole Procaccini. Having moved to Milan with the rest of the family in the mid-1580s, he trained as a sculptor, perhaps in the workshop of Francesco Brambilla (ii), and then worked (1591–9) for the workshop of Milan Cathedral. Italian painter, printmaker.

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