About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Giovanni Battista Pace
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Title
- Angel Comforting a Hermit Saint
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Place
- Italy (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- Made 1660–1669
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Medium
- Pen and iron-gall ink, with brush and iron-gall ink wash, over black chalk, on cream laid paper
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed verso, in brown ink (in Pace's hand): "La lege santa sarà data dal principe / al suo popolo e se non li sarà reato. / La Giostisia per mezzo della quale / il re regna, et condanna li giovani / scelerati delle colpe, le quali essendo atroci / defuilmente deveno esere perdonate dal giudica a quilli li qualli {me} ritano simili gastigi". {The saccred law will be given by the prince / to his peoplle, and if it will not be sinful for him / The Justice by which / the king rules and condems the wicked young people / for transgressions that are so ferocious, / Hardly will these be forgiven by the judge / for those who deserve those kinds of punishments}.
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Dimensions
- 11.8 × 15.1 cm (4 11/16 × 6 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Richard and Mary L. Gray
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Reference Number
- 2019.883
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IIIF Manifest
- https://api.artic.edu/api/v1/artworks/202245/manifest.json