Self-Portrait(?), Wearing a Plumed Cap ["Portrait of Bernini"]

c. 1645/1647

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Associated Names
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

The image is a portrait of a man with long, curly hair, wearing a large hat. He has defined facial features, including a prominent nose and intense eyes. The man is depicted facing forward and wearing a cloak or draped fabric around his shoulders. The background is plain with text at the top left indicating the artist or sitter.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Florian Carr Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 18.9 × 13.6 cm (7 7/16 × 5 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 31.9 × 23 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/16 in.)
    framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2014.73.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch 1802 - 1821, no. 53

  • Series Title

    The Six Oriental Heads

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2014 by NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2020

  • A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 53 (shown only in Washington, Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821: no. 53 and 31

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 8, i/ii

2020

  • Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 192, no. 53

Inscriptions

upper left in image: GC [in monogram]; CASTILIONVS / GENOVESE F

Wikidata ID

Q77007061

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