Diogenes Searching for an Honest Man

1640/1647

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Neil Phillips

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 21.2 x 30.2 cm (8 3/8 x 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1997.16.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 21


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(R.G. Michel, Paris); purchased, with funds from Neil Phillips, by NGA, 1997.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

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

lower left in plate: G.BENED. CASTglion / in P.; lower center in plate: Al Sig: Nicolo Simonelli Mio Sigre / ...

Watermarks

Circle or orb

Wikidata ID

Q75403618


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