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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Theseus Finding Aegeus' Arms, c. 1645

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

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

Credit Line

Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch 1802-1821, no. 24

Accession Number

2018.113.27

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Giovanni Giacomo de Rossi (publisher) Italian, active 17th century

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Inscription

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

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

Dolnier, Sandy
Manning, Robert L., Mr. and Mrs.

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

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