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Currently not on display

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called Il Grechetto

Genoa, 1609 - Mantua, 1664

The Genius of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Date 1648
Materials and Techniques etching
Size(cm) 36.9 x 24.8
State 3/III
Inscriptions Signed on the book: Genium Io: / Benedicti / Castilionis / Ianuen. / Inv. Fe.; Inscribed below: Si vendono in Roma da Gio: Iacomo de Rossi 1648 alla Pace.; Inscribed on the note: HO VI PAR Potto [or Poldo?] / CHE SARA; Inscribed below right: Ills°. Atq. Ornmo. / D. Ma: / Da Meruhe Dño de / Clootvijck bonar Artium / Maecenati dignissimo / Jo: Jacobus de Rubeis D.D.D.
Standard ref. Bartsch XXI, 23, III/III; Percy E16; Bellini 56 III/III
Category Prints
Collection Number G.2012-0012

Bibliography

2014
Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 47 (Apr. 2012-Mar. 2013), 2014, List of New Acquisitions. p. 60.

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