Sophonisba Preparing to Drink the Poison
18th century
26.3 cm x 41.3 cm (10 3/8 in. x 16 1/4 in.)
Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini
(Venice, Italy, 1675 - 1741, Venice, Italy)
Primary
Object Type:
drawing
Artist Nationality:
Europe, Italian
Medium and Support:
Pen and brown ink over black chalk on blue antique laid paper, laid down
Credit Line:
Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Suida-Manning Collection, 2017
Accession Number:
2017.1284
This sheet is characteristic of the artist's extremely mobile and instinctively decorative draftsmanship.