PITTONI, Giambattista
(b. 1687, Venezia, d. 1767, Venezia)

Sacrifice of Isaac

c. 1720
Oil on canvas, 118 x 155 cm
San Francesco della Vigna, Venice

This painting is the companion piece to Nicola Grassi's Rebecca at the Well in the same church. It was inspired by a work on the same subject by Federico Bencovich (now in the Strossmayer Gallery, Zagreb) and was the product of a period of figurative development and orientation.