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Pietro Testa
The Sacrifice of Iphigeniacirca 1640-1642

Not on view
Engraving on cream paper depicting a large multi-figure classical scene on a stone terrace, with a female figure on clouds, a stag, a flaming brazier, and a decorated urn among robed figures

Pietro Testa, The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, circa 1640-1642, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Bruce Davis

Artist or Maker
Pietro Testa
Title
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
circa 1640-1642
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 7/16 x 19 1/8 in. (39.21 x 48.58 cm); plate: 15 x 18 5/8 in. (38.1 x 47.31 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Bruce Davis
Accession Number
AC1994.138.3
Classification
Prints
Collecting Area
Prints and Drawings
Selected Bibliography
  • Bartsch, Adam von. The Illustrated Bartsch. New York: Abaris Books, 1978.
  • Cropper, Elizabeth. The Ideal of Painting: Pietro Testa's Düsseldorf Notebook. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.