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Pietro Antonio de Pietri

Saint Nicholas of Bari bringing three boys back to life

Blatt: 357 x 234 mm

Physical Description: Pen in black, some areas gone over with a brush in brown, heightened in white with brush and chalk, traces of chalk in ochre, on paper dry-prepared with white chalk

Inventory Number: 4286

Object Number: 4286 Z

Status: On display, Department of Prints and Drawings Exhibition Gallery

Texts

About the Work

The miraculous event unfolds as if on a stage. Saint Nicholas of Bari brings three young boys back to life after they have been deviously murdered in an inn by the innkeepers. The execution is characteristic of de’ Pietri’s late work. This pupil of Maratti’s combined fine pen lines with fluid ink applied with a brush. The highlights added in white are meanwhile discernible only in isolated places.

Work Data

Basic Information

Title: Saint Nicholas of Bari bringing three boys back to life

Draughtsman

Pietro Antonio de Pietri

Period Produced

17th century

School

Baroque

Object Type

drawing

Physical Description: Pen in black, some areas gone over with a brush in brown, heightened in white with brush and chalk, traces of chalk in ochre, on paper dry-prepared with white chalk

Material

Technique

Geographic Reference

Upper Italian

Production Reason

Captions Added Later: Bezeichnet unten links (mit der Feder in Braun) ausgekratzt und mit weißer Kreide übergangen: 457 [?], Paraphe; gelöschter Name, unten rechts: Pietro de Petris [?]; Trockenstempel François Renaud, Paris (L. 1042) unten rechts: FR; auf der Rückseite (auf dem Auflagekarton) bezeichnet unten mittig (mit Bleistift): Lit. P.; darüber Stempel des Städelschen Kunstinstitutes (L. 2356)