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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man, 1640/1647

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.2 x 30.2 cm (8 3/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Neil Phillips

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 21

Accession Number

1997.16.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

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Inscription

lower left in plate: G.BENED. CASTglion / in P.; lower center in plate: Al Sig: Nicolo Simonelli Mio Sigre / ...

Provenance

(R.G. Michel, Paris); purchased, with funds from Neil Phillips, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Galerie R.G. Michel

Exhibition History

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

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821.

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