AT-00019808
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Study for Angels Sealing the Foreheads of the Children of Israel in Saint Peter's Basilica
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) (Italian, Cortona 1596–1669 Rome)
- Date
- 1652
- Medium
- Black chalk, brush with brown and gray wash, highlighted with white gouache, on three sheets of brownish paper glued with overlapping joints
- Dimensions
- 16-3/4 x 44-9/16 in. (42.7 x 113.2 cm) maximum, unevenly cut upper and lower borders
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawings
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1966
- Accession no.
- 66.134.1a–c
Provenance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s open-access data does not include an ownership history for this work. See the museum’s page for this work.
More by Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini) in museum collections
The Virgin and Child with Saint Martina, Another Study of Saint Martina, Studies of a Head, and of an Arcade (recto); Figure Studies (verso)
Pietro da Cortona (Pietro Berrettini)1596–1669 · Drawing
Data retrieved from the Metropolitan Museum of Art on October 9, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00019808
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