Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664
Studies of Orpheus and the Animals
8 3/8 x 12 3/16 inches (213 x 309 mm)
Pen and brown ink, with black and red chalk, on paper.
1975.4
Purchased on the Fellows Fund.
Notes
Watermark: Trefoil below and initials "PA" on vertical stick. Watermark, beta radiograph. "PA"", trefoil on vertical bar. 141133wm_1975_4_CM_beta.jpeg
Related to painting of c. 1645, formerly in the Costantino Nigro Collection, Genoa.
Related to painting of c. 1645, formerly in the Costantino Nigro Collection, Genoa.
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pen and brown ink at lower left, "castiglion".
Associated names
Moscardo family, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Miniscalchi, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Calceolari, marquis de, former owner.
Miniscalchi, former owner.
Scholz, János, former owner.
Bibliography
Ryskamp, Charles, ed. Eighteenth Report to the Fellows of the Pierpont Morgan Library, 1975-1977. New York : Pierpont Morgan Library, 1978, p. 256.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, p. 27, repr.
Alfred Moir, ed. Drawings by Seventeenth Century Italian Masters from the Collection of János Scholz. Santa Barbara : Art Galleries, University of California, 1974, p. 27, repr.
Classification
Century Drawings
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