Pan Reclining before a Herm, c. 1640-1645

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Medium

etching on laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 24.4 × 20.1 cm (9 5/8 × 7 15/16 in.)
plate: 23.1 × 28.8 cm (9 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.)

framed: 59.69 × 44.45 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund and Purchased as the Gift of Robert B. Loper

Catalogue Raisonné

Bartsch, no. 16, State i/iii

Accession Number

2012.148.1

Artists / Makers

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (artist) Italian, 1609 - 1664

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right in plate: G. BENED.to CAS. / P.; by later hand, verso upper right, in graphite: No 97 / 272 [circled]; by later hand, verso upper right, in red ink: no. 16-; by later hand, verso center, in graphite: C 239; by later hand, verso lower left, in brown ink: 2 [undeciphered]; by later hand, verso lower left, in graphite: 68 Due Sailir 2/16 / [undeciphered]; by later hand, verso lower right, in graphite: Testa di Pane N. 16-; by later hand, verso lower right, in brown ink: Testa di Pane [undecipherable and faded]

Provenance

(Mattia Jona, Milan); purchased 2012 by NGA.

Associated Names

La Portantina di Mattia Jona

Bibliography

1802: Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna: J.V. Degen, 1802-1821, no. 16.