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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

The Bodies of Saints Peter and Paul Hidden in the Catacombs, c. 1645/1647

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 29.6 × 20.5 cm (11 5/8 × 8 1/16 in.)

sheet: 30 × 20.6 cm (11 13/16 × 8 1/8 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 14

Accession Number

2019.125.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left in plate: CASTIGLONE GENOVESE / INVENT;

Provenance

(Susan Schulman Printseller, New York); purchased 2019 by NGA

Associated Names

Schulman, Susan

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: 14

1971: Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971: no. E21

1982: Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 57

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