Shepherds Following Their Flock, c. 1655

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 25 x 37.1 cm (9 13/16 x 14 5/8 in.)

sheet: 25.5 x 37.4 cm (10 1/16 x 14 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Bert Freidus

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 30

Accession Number

1999.78.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: G. Benedetto Cast[iglione]; by later hand lower center verso, in graphite: SN-; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: B N.30, Castiglione fec

Provenance

Justinius Kerner, Budapest (Lugt 1567b). (Olimpia Theodoli, London); purchased 1999 by NGA.

Associated Names

Kerner, Justinius
Theodoli, Olimpia

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.

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