Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark

c. 1645

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Associated Names
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

This is a painting featuring farm animals such as goats, cows, chickens, and ducks gathered together. Around the animals are a few human figures, appearing to herd them towards a large structure on the right side of the image. The figure at the center has a long white beard and wears a red robe. The background shows blue sky with large white clouds, and the ground beneath the animals is brown. The brushstrokes are visible, especially those depicting the sky and structure.

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Probably 18th-century French private collection (copied by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée in 1776). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 February 1988, no. 230); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); Gilbert Butler, New York, 1988; partial and promised gift to NGA, 1991.

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Exhibition History

1992

  • Dürer to Diebenkorn: Recent Acquisitions of Art of Paper, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1992, no. 22.

1996

  • Genoa, Drawings and Prints, 1530 - 1800, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1996, no. 30.

1997

  • Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2000

  • Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, 174.

2008

  • Medieval to Modern: Recent Acquisitions of Drawings, Prints, and Illustrated Books, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2008, no. 66.

2012

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

Bibliography

1993

  • Paris, Richard. Foundation Stories: The Stories on Which Literarure is Built. Iowa, 1993: p. 28.

2009

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan. Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500-1800. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2009: 226, fig. 1.

Wikidata ID

Q64572396

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