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The Sacrifice of Isaac by Bartolomeo Cavarozzi, c. 1617, Private collection
Old Testament

The Sacrifice of Isaac

Bartolomeo Cavarozzi (Italian, 1587–1625)

c. 1617 · Oil on canvas · Private collection (no public holder)

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image 24×16.5 in on a 24×18 in sheet

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About this painting

Abraham's hand rests on Isaac's head; the other holds the knife low. An angel looks up into the old man's face, and beside the angel waits a ram. Sotheby's catalogue reads the light as falling almost only on what saves: the angel's face, the ram, the pyre, Abraham's hands. Genesis 22:12 stops the hand laid on the son. Found again in 1987, the canvas carried Caravaggio's name for years on Mina Gregori's word; Bologna proposed Bartolomeo Cavarozzi in 1992, and Spear and Papi followed. Genesis put a ram in the son's place. The catalogue put a follower in the master's.

Sources: Sotheby's, Old Master & British Paintings Evening Sale, London, 9 July 2014, sale L14033, lot 30. · Nicholas Hall, catalogue entry, 'The Sacrifice of Isaac' (Bartolomeo Cavarozzi). · Museo Nacional del Prado, Enciclopedia, 'Cavarozzi, Bartolomeo'. · USCCB, New American Bible, Genesis 22. · Genesis 22:13, Douay-Rheims (Challoner); with Genesis 22:12, 'Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him'. Project corpus, data/bible_drc.js.

And he said to him: Lay not thy hand upon the boy, neither do thou any thing to him: now I know that thou fearest God, and hast not spared thy only begotten son for my sake.

Genesis 22:12 · Douay-Rheims (Challoner)

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The Record
Date c. 1617
Collection Private collection
Subject Old Testament
Season Ordinary Time
Master 9,449 px
License PD/CC0
Attribution Private collection (no public holder)

The original, as its museum records it

Artist Bartolomeo Cavarozzi
Date around 1617, probably in Spain
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 116 by 175 cm.; 45 5/8 by 68 7/8 in.
Holding Private collection (no public holder)
Accession not recorded

Every line above is reproduced from the holding institution’s own catalogue entry, which is linked. Where their title, date or attribution differs from ours, theirs is the one printed here.

The file this print is made from

Source Sacrifice of Isaac-Caravaggio (c. 1603).jpg
Master 9,449 px on the long edge
Rights PD/CC0 — the photograph as well as the painting
At a glance
ArtistBartolomeo Cavarozzi (Italian, 1587–1625)
Datec. 1617
MuseumPrivate collection (no public holder)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions116 by 175 cm.; 45 5/8 by 68 7/8 in.
Sheet sizes18×24 in, 24×36 in, 32×48 in, 40×60 in
Provenance of the file
Held byPrivate collection (no public holder) the museum’s record
Source fileWikimedia Commons · Sacrifice of Isaac-Caravaggio (c. 1603).jpg
LicencePublic domain
Master9,449 × 6,496 px, the file our printer receives
ChainTaken from Wikimedia Commons; held as our print master.

The sheets

18×24 in sheet 24×18 in · image 24×16.5 in · archival margin · 394 dpi
24×36 in sheet 36×24 in · image 34.9×24 in · archival margin · 271 dpi
32×48 in sheet 48×32 in · image 46.5×32 in · archival margin · 203 dpi
40×60 in sheet 60×40 in · image 58.2×40 in · archival margin · 162 dpi

Printed on demand. Public-domain masterwork, reproduced from a 9,449 px master of the original. The whole image is printed — never cropped to fit the sheet — so every sheet carries an archival margin, and the dimensions and resolution listed above are the ones you receive.