Animals Entering Noah's Ark Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–1664)

ca. 1650

Prints and Drawings

By appointment, Duffy Study Room
Medium

Etching

Dimensions

platemark: 8 × 15 3/4 in. (20.3 × 40 cm)

Credit Line

Everett V. Meeks, B.A. 1901, Fund

Accession Number

1969.18

Culture

Italian

Period

17th century

Classification

Prints

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Provenance
L'Arte Antica, Turin, Italy
Bibliography
  • Sue Welsh Reed and Richard Wallace, Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque, exh. cat. (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1989), 269–271, fig. 141,141(detail)
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States
Additional information

Object/Work type

etchings

Inscriptions

on plate: GB/Castiglione/--(illegible, perhaps EIEP): Annotated in pencil on reverse UR: B. Castiglione (1B) Entrata di Noe'nell'Arca/I tirat): Annot. in faded brown ink UL: --compro a Roma/--8--65; in pencil across C: Gio Benedetto Castiglione t il Grechetto invento e preife (?), nato nel 1616 morto mel 1670/ intagliatore spiritoso./ (illegible signature).

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