Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609 - 1665)
THE ANIMALS GOING TOWARD THE ARK. 1650-1655. Bartsch 1.
Etching, 205 x 401 mm, (8 1/16 x 15 13/16) trimmed along
platemark. Very fine, early impression with fine polishing
scratches showing clearly.
Provenance: Prince John Cantacuzene (not in Lugt).
This impression illustrated in: Sue Welsh Reed & Richard
Wallace: Italian Etchers of the Renaissance & Baroque,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989, No. 141.
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Another
etching by Castiglione:
THE
SUPPOSED FINDING OF THE REMAINS OF ST. PETER AND ST. PAUL.
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