Pietro Testa

The Prophecy of Basilides

c. 1648/1649

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

National Gallery of Art

Medium

pen and brown ink with black and brown washes over black chalk with traces of red chalk, on two joined sheets of greenish-blue laid paper, squared in red chalk, laid down on old mount

Dimensions

sheet: 36.8 × 59.8 cm (14 1/2 × 23 9/16 in.) mount: 38.3 × 61.3 cm (15 1/16 × 24 1/8 in.)

Collection no.

2022.160.1

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Pietro Testa. The Prophecy of Basilides. Pietro Testa; Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington; William B. O'Neal Fund and Gift of Funds from Ann and Matthew Nimetz, and from Andrea Woodner. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.