Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark, c. 1645

Not on View

Medium

brush and oil paint on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 39.4 x 54.8 cm (15 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Partial Gift of Gilbert Butler, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Accession Number

1991.221.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Provenance

Probably 18th-century French private collection (copied by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée in 1776). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 February 1988, no. 230); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); Gilbert Butler, New York, 1988; partial and promised gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Butler, Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs.
Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox Ltd.
Sotheby's

Exhibition History

1992: Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 22.

1996: Genoa, Drawings and Prints, 1530 - 1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996, no. 30.

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2000: Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 174.

2008: Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 66.

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

1993: Paris, Richard. Foundation Stories: The Stories on Which Literarure is Built. Iowa, 1993: p. 28.

2009: Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 226, fig. 1.