Old Man Wearing a Turban Ornamented with Fur, Facing Right

c. 1645/1647

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 11 x 8.1 cm (4 5/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 11.8 x 8.6 cm (4 5/8 x 3 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.23.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 34

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Paul Prouté, S.A., Paris); purchased 2004 by NGA.

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

upper left in plate: GB (in monogram) / CASTILIONE / GENOVESE

Wikidata ID

Q76341574

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