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    A Pagan Sacrifice
    Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. A Pagan Sacrifice, c. 1645–50. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).
    AT-00002459

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    A Pagan Sacrifice

    by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

    Provenance

    Sir William Drake (died 1890), London [Lugt 736]. E. Parsons, London, by 1928 [according to Philadelphia 1971] Lord Kenneth Clark, Saltwood; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 20, 1967, Clark sale, lot 11, to Mrs. Slatkin, London [according addenda in sales catalogue]; sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.

    Exhibition history

    New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, "Master Drawings," 1967. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque," September 17-November 28, 1971, cat. 21. St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections," February 23-April 16, 1972, cat. 38. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 72, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Miami, Fla., Center for the Fine Arts, "In Quest of Excellence," October 27, 1983-January 29, 1984. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 36-37, cat. 7 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.

    Publications

    "Art and Auction: The Year at Sotheby's and Parke-Benet, 1966-67" (New York, 1967), pp. 105 and 108 (ill.). Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 4C11. Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors). Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 22, 52 no. 14, 53 (ill.)

    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione / Italian, 1609-1664
    Date
    c. 1645–50
    Medium
    Oil paint on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
    Dimensions
    57.6 × 42.5 cm (22 11/16 × 16 3/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    oil paintings (visual works)
    Place
    Italy
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Clarence Buckingham Collection
    Accession no.
    1968.77

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