The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona

Jean Robert Ango French
 After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Italian

Not on view

This black chalk drawing is a copy after a painting by Pietro da Cortona of 1623-24, formerly in the Sacchetti palace and now in Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome (inv. 153). Ango is a largely forgotten French artist who made a living in eighteenth-century Rome by producing chalk copies for patrons. This was one of many acquired by the abbé de Saint Non, who would later publish a compendium of etchings after the paintings and antiquities he had seen in Italy.

The museum owns a related drawing, The Infant Moses before Pharaoh, after Giovanni Battista Ruggieri (61.234), possibly once mounted together with this one.

The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona, Jean Robert Ango (French, active Rome, 1759–70, died after 1773), Black chalk

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