The Sacrifice of Isaac

Guillaume Courtois (Guglielmo Cortese), known as Il Borgonone (Saint-Hippolyte 1628 - Rome 1679) . Oil painting on canvas, The Sacrifice of Isaac by Guillaume Courtois (Saint-Hippolyte 1628 - Rome 1679). Full-length figure of Abraham, centre, his left hand pressing the head of a kneeling loin-clothed Isaac, his upraised right hand holding a dagger, a winged angel above restraining him, a ram in a thicket to right. Cortese was a pupil of Pietro da Cortona and, although a Burgundian, really called Guillaume Courtois, so thoroughly assimilated the Italian Baroque in Rome, where he spent the whole of his active career, that even his name was Italianised. His brother, Jacques or Giacomo, who was in Rome with him, and became a Jesuit and a celebrated painter of battle pieces, is also known as 'Il Borgonone'. Hinton Ampner, Hampshire (Accredited Museum)