Temporalitas Aeternitas

1655

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: 17.9 x 25.9 cm (7 1/16 x 10 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 22 x 30.1 cm (8 11/16 x 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    2004.116.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 27, State ii/v (TIB)

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Bergquist, Newton Center, MA); 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.

1971

  • Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971.

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982.

Inscriptions

by later hand, upper left verso in brown ink: Benedetto Castiglione; by later hand, across bottom verso in graphite: gravé par Benedetto Castiglione: Piece allégorique sur le (not deciphered) de stabilité des choses humaines / B XXI f25 2/8 27

Wikidata ID

Q76341594

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