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Allegory with a Courtier and a River God. Verso: five female figures

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1609-1664

Allegory with a Courtier and a River God. Verso: five female figures

late 1640s
17 1/4 x 22 7/8 inches (438 x 580 mm)
Oil paint; verso: black chalk.
1981.73

Thaw Collection.

Notes
Verso is a copy presumably after a print, in reverse, of Rubens' painting "Thomyris and Cyrus".
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.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department