The Sacrifice of Polyxena, after Pietro da Cortona

Jean Robert Ango|Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

ca. 1759–70 · Black chalk · Drawings and Prints

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.

Artist

Jean Robert Ango|Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)

Date

ca. 1759–70

Medium

Black chalk

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Gift of the Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw Charitable Trust, 2019