Head of a Young Man in a Feathered Hat (so-called Self-Portrait)

c. 1645/1647

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    1996.113.5

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 31, State only


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

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.

Inscriptions

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

Wikidata ID

Q75398919


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