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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

The Adoration of the Shepherds, 1650/1655

Not on View

Medium

oil on laid paper; laid down

Dimensions

overall: 41.2 × 60.9 cm (16 1/4 × 24 in.)

framed: 66.04 × 86.36 cm (26 × 34 in.)

Credit Line

Woodner Collection, Gift of Dian Woodner

Accession Number

2012.7.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

by later hand, on mount, lower center in pen and brown ink: Bene Castigli:

Provenance

C.R. Rudolf (sale, London, Sotheby's, 4 July 1977, lot 107); purchased by Ian Woodner, New York; by inheritance to his daughters, Andrea and Dian Woodner, New York, 1990.

Associated Names

Anonymous
Woodner and Ms. Andrea Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Dian, Ms.
Woodner, Ian

Exhibition History

1983: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1983-85, no. 30, repro.

1986: Dibujos de los siglos XIV al XX: Colección Woodner, Museo del Prado, Madrid, 1986-87, no. 39, repro.

1986: Meisterzeichnungen aus Sechs Jahrhunderten: Die Sammlung Ian Woodner, Albertina, Vienna; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 1986, no. 31, repro.

1987: Master Drawings: The Woodner Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1987, no. 29, repro.

1990: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, no. 37, repro.

1995: The Touch of the Artist: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1995-1996, no. 74 (entry by Ann Percy).

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1997 (no cat.).

2006: Master Drawings from the Woodner Collections, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2006 - 2007 (no cat.).

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2012 (no cat.).

2017: The Woodner Collections: Master Drawings from Seven Centuries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 2017 (no cat.).

2020: A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2020, no. 59 (Washington venue canceled).

Bibliography

1981: de Gaigneron, Axelle. "Les Nouveaux Choix de Mr. Woodner." Connaissance des Arts. 348 (February 1981): 74-75 (repr.).

2020: Bober, Jonathan. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750,Exh cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington: 210, no. 59.