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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Head of a Young Man in a Feathered Hat (so-called Self-Portrait), c. 1645/1647

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 18.7 x 13.7 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 19 x 13.9 cm (7 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 31, State only

Accession Number

1996.113.5

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

upper left in plate: GB. CASTILIONVS / GENOVESE. FE.; by later hand, on mount, lower right in graphite: No. 15

Provenance

(Sale, London, Christie's, 27 June 1996, lot 55); purchased (via Artemis) by NGA, 1996.

Associated Names

Artemis Fine Arts Inc.

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.

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