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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664
Allegory with a Courtier and a River God. Verso: five female figures
late 1640s
Oil paint; verso: black chalk.
17 1/4 x 22 7/8 inches (438 x 580 mm)
Thaw Collection.
1981.73
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Verso is a copy presumably after a print, in reverse, of Rubens' painting "Thomyris and Cyrus".
Provenance:
Giuseppe Vallardi (Lugt 1223); unidentified stamp, Baron Barrocco?; Attilio Simonetti, Rome (Lugt S. 2288bis); Galerie Meissner, Zurich; Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, New York.
Associated names:
Vallardi, Giuseppe, 1784-1861, former owner.
Barrocco, Baron, former owner.
Simonetti, Attilio, 1843-1925, former owner.
Thaw, Eugene Victor, former owner.
Thaw, Clare, former owner.
Bibliography:
Thaw Catalogue Raisonné, 2017, no. 38, repr.
Stampfle, Felice, and Cara D. Denison. Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975, no. 23, repr.
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Twentieth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1981-1983. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1984, p. 247.
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