Young Man Wearing a Fur Headdress with a Headband, Facing Right, c. 1645/1647

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series Title

Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 11.1 x 8.1 cm (4 3/8 x 3 3/16 in.)

sheet: 13.1 x 10.1 cm (5 3/16 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift (Partial and Promised) of Vivian S. and Marc H. Brodsky

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 39, State ii/iii

Accession Number

1996.32.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

upper right in plate: GBC (in monogram) / CASTLIONVS / GEONVESSE; by later hand, lower left verso in graphite: B. XXI p.18 No 39; by later hand, lower right verso in graphite: 14864 cr/PA; by later hand, upper center verso in graphite: A / 3

Provenance

Unidentified collector (stamp, ABV, Lugt undescribed); (Pia Gallo, New York); Mr. and Mrs. Marc Brodsky, Washington, DC; gift (partial and promised) to NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Gallo, Pia

Exhibition History

1997: Six Centuries/Six Artists, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1997.

2012: The Baroque Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., 2012

Bibliography

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