Theseus Finding Aegeus' Arms, c. 1645

Not on View

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 30.2 × 20.6 cm (11 7/8 × 8 1/8 in.)

sheet: 30.9 × 21.2 cm (12 3/16 × 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Alessandra Manning Dolnier

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 24

Accession Number

2018.113.28

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: GIO BENED. CASTILONE in; lower right in plate: Jo. Jac.mo Rossi form Romae 1648 alla Pace; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: --50. Einle 88 (?); LLM(?) (not in Lugt)

Provenance

Akim Gregorowitsch Bernfeld [1845-1915] Vienna (Lugt 127). Robert and Bertina Suida Manning, Forest Hills, NY; by descent Alessandra Manning and Kurt Dolnier, Watertown, CT, 1996; Gift to NGA, 2018

Associated Names

Bernfeld, Akim Gregorowitsch
Dolnier, Sandy
Manning, Robert L., Mr. and Mrs.

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821.

1971: Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971.

1982: Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no.