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Pietro Testa ( il Lucchesino), artist
Italian, 1612 - 1650
The Prodigal Son Tending the Swine, circa 1645
Etching
20.2 x 30.1 cm (image)
Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts 1963.30.36463

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Artist Biography: Called il Lucchesino. Born Lucca 1612, worked mostly in Rome, beginning in the studio of Domenichino. Died by his own hand in Rome, 1650.~~Reference: Bartsch, Adam. Le Peintre-graveur. W¸rzburg: 1920. vol. 20~Bellini, Paolo and R. Wallace. Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century.The Illustrated Bartsch vol 45, Commentary. New York:1990, Abaris Books.~Cropper, Elizabeth. Pietro Testa. Philadelphia: 1988, Philadelphia Museum of Art.~Reed, Sue Welsh, and R. Wallace. Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque. Boston: 1989, Museum of Fine Arts.~