The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple (recto); Another Design for the Same Composition (verso)
1612–50
Medium
Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on beige paper (recto); pen and brown ink (verso).
Dimensions
14 7/16 x 10 5/16in. (36.7 x 26.2cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1971
Accession Number
1971.241
Rights
Public Domain
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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...