The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
ca. 1640–42
Medium
Etching with drypoint
Dimensions
Plate: 14 11/16 x 18 1/8 in. (37.3 x 46 cm) Sheet: 15 1/4 x 18 3/4 in. (38.8 x 47.7 cm)
Classification
Portfolios
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1926
Accession Number
26.70.3(43)
Tags
About the Artist
Pietro Testa|Giovanni Giacomo De Rossi · 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...