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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
A family with animals in a landscape c. 1660
Red-brown and blue-grey oil paint on paper | 29.3 x 39.8 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903857
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A drawing of a compact group moving to the right, centred around a woman with an infant on a horse; her husband addresses her as he walks behind. Dogs and sheep move along with them, and beyond the trees on the right more animals head into the distance.
Provenance
Probably Carlo II and Fernandino-Carlo Gonzaga, 9th and 10th Dukes of Mantua; Zaccaria Sagredo; from whose heirs purchased by Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice, 1752; from whom purchased by George III, 1762
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Medium and techniques
Red-brown and blue-grey oil paint on paper
Measurements
29.3 x 39.8 cm (sheet of paper)
Object type(s)
Featured in
ExhibitionCastiglione: Lost Genius: The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace
One of the great artists of the Baroque, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64) was perhaps the most innovative and technically brilliant Italian draftsman of his time. He practised as a painter, but won fame for his drawings and prints.
PublicationThe Drawings of Castiglione and Stefano Della Bella
In the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle
