print
- Museum number
- W,3.174
- Description
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The Sacrifice; a priest standing next to an altar and surrounded by women sitting with their babies, while a group of men carrying some vessels are approaching the altar. 1542
Etching
- Production date
- 1542
- Dimensions
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Height: 277 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 394 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print depicts Rosso's design for a fresco on the north wall of the Galerie François I. The preparatory drawing is now lost, but a number of copies are known in the Teylers Museum in Haarlem (K.I.74), the Biblioteca Reale in Turin (inv. 15661), the Hermitage (OP-16562) and in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon (inv. 1962-539 and 1962-540). Rosso executed a variant of this composition — perhaps a first idea for the Fontainebleau fresco — which is recorded in an engraving attributed to Étienne Delaune (See Carroll in 'Rosso Fiorentino', Washington 1987, cat. No. 87), a drawing on vellum attributed to Baptiste Pellerin (Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Mas. 898) and other copies (for example, Louvre, inv. 1574). Jenkins 2017.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1810 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- with no indication of provenance on the verso
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- W,3.174
