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The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)
Provenance
Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf (1884-1974) [Lugt sup. 2811b.] Sold, Sotheby's, London, May 21, 1963, lot 19, as "Annunciation to the Shepherds." Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.
Exhibition history
London Arts Council Gallery, "Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf," January 5-February 3, 1962; traveled to Leeds City Art Gallery, March 17-April 7, 1962; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, February 17-March 11, 1962. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque," September 17-November 28, 1971, cat. 57 (ill.). The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1, 1988-March 20, 1989.
Publications
Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 58-9, no. 74, reproduced as no. 79. Gazette des Beaux Arts, series 6, vol. 69, fig. 291. Ann Percy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque (Philadelphia, 1971), pp. 94-5, no. 57.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione / Italian, 1609-1664
- Date
- c. 1655
- Medium
- Red oil paint on ivory laid paper
- Dimensions
- 41.9 × 54.6 cm (16 1/2 × 21 1/2 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- oil paintings (visual works)
- Place
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Accession no.
- 1966.34
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