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Sacrifice of Isaac

A work made of brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.
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  • A work made of brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper.

Date:

c. 1656

Artist:

After Jacopo Robusti, called Tintoretto (Italian, 1519-1594)
or Pedro de Valpuesta (Spanish, 1614-1668)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Tintoretto

Title

Sacrifice of Isaac

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1656

Medium

Brush and brown ink and wash, heightened with white gouache, over traces of black chalk, on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory laid paper

Inscriptions

Inscribed recto, lower center, in pen and brown ink: "Pedro Valpuesta / Madrid 165(?)6"; lower right, in pen and brown ink: "From Sir Joshua Reynolds Collection / see stamp"

Dimensions

38.8 × 50 cm (15 5/16 × 19 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection

Reference Number

1922.1018

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