Hagar Consoled by an Angel (from a painting by Castiglione) and Three Heads of Old Men (from a painting by Ricci of Jesus and the Adultress)

1774

Jean-Claude-Richard, Abbé de Saint-Non

Artist, French, 1727 - 1791

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching (counterproof) reworked in brown wash on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 18.7 x 13.1 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1996.128.40

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Cayeux 1963, no. 277


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Galerie Cailleux, Paris); purchased by Christian Humann; The Christian Humann Foundation, Paris, 1981; gift to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1963

  • Cayeux, Jean de. "Introduction au catalogue critique des griffonis de Saint-Non." Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français, 1963: pp. 297-384. Paris: F. de Nobele, 1964. Separately published. Paris Librairie Armand Colin, 1964.

Inscriptions

upper left plate (backwards): Benedetto de / Castiglione / Palaces de S(?) / a Venise; center left in pen and brown ink: Benedetto di Castiglione a Venise; lower right in pen and brown ink: Sebastien Rizzi.id.

Wikidata ID

Q75403895


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