Theseus Finding Aegeus' Arms

c. 1645

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Associated Names
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: 29.9 × 20.5 cm (11 3/4 × 8 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2018.113.27

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802-1821, no. 24

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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. 24

1971

  • Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971: no. E12

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 13, iii/iii

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Gio Bened.to CASTIlone in. p; lower right in plate: Io Jac.mo ROssi form. Roma 1542 alla Pace

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