The Circumcision of Christ

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The Circumcision of Christ

c. 1757

Jacopo (Giacomo) Cestaro (Italian, 1718–after 1778)

Cestaro was a little-known artist from Naples whose personality as a draughtsman has gradually been teased out of obscurity by scholars, who have over the past several decades pieced together a consistent body of drawings attributable to him in museums all over Europe and America. He used a distinctively dense combination of chalk, ink, wash, and opaque watercolor to build up his tonal and atmospheric compositions.

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Object Details

Title:

The Circumcision of Christ

Date:

c. 1757

Artist:

Jacopo (Giacomo) Cestaro (Italian, 1718–after 1778)

Medium:

Pen and black ink with brush and brown and gray washes, black chalk, heightened with white opaque watercolor, squared in black chalk, on cream laid paper, mounted down

Dimensions:

Sheet: 14 13/16 x 9 1/2 inches (37.6 x 24.1 cm)

Classification:

Drawings

Credit Line:

The Muriel and Philip Berman Gift, acquired from the John S. Phillps bequest of 1876 to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, with funds contributed by Muriel and Philip Berman and the Edgar Viguers Seeler Fund (by exchange), 1984

Accession Number:

1984-56-222

Geography:

Made in Italy, Europe

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