The Holy Family with Attendant Angels
1612–50
Medium
Pen and brown ink (recto); fragmentary copy in pen and brown ink of figures in Mantegna's engraving, the Senators (verso) (Bartsch, 8, pp. 234-235, no. 11)
Dimensions
5 3/8 x 6 1/16in. (13.7 x 15.4cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. David T. Schiff Gift, 1980
Accession Number
1980.309
Tags
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...