Temporalis Aeternitas

1645

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi

Publisher, Italian, active 17th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 30 × 20.2 cm (11 13/16 × 7 15/16 in.), trimmed to or within platemark

  • Accession

    2018.113.26

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 27

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Unidentified private collector (similar to Lugt 2417). Albertina, Vienna (duplicate, Lugt 5g). Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 27

1971

  • Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971: no. E13.

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 14, iv/iv

Inscriptions

on tomb in image: TEMPORALIS AETERNITAS / 1645; in image, lower center: Nec Sepulcra legens uereor / ne per dam memoriam; lower left below image in plate: Io BeneD CASTILIONUS pinxit; lower right in plate below image: Si stampano in Roma per Gio: Dom.co Rossi all Pace all'Insegna di Parigit Con licenza a de Superiori; by later hand, lower center verso in graphite: HB 43S. 28 / XXI 25 p. 23 D

Watermarks

partial (fleur de lys)

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