The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona

After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) Italian

ca. 1759–70

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.

Artwork Details

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Title: The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona
Artist: Jean Robert Ango (French, active Rome, 1759–70, died after 1773)
Artist: After Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome)
Date: ca. 1759–70
Medium: Black chalk
Dimensions: Sheet: 5 1/2 × 8 7/16 in. (14 × 21.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2019
Object Number: 2019.18.2
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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