Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark
Harold Joachim Purchase Fund
Catalogue
- Year
- 1650
- Medium
- Etching on ivory paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.6 × 40.5 cm (8 1/8 × 16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 41.2 cm (8 9/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
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1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
Pan and Olympus
1655 · etching on laid paper
David with the Head of Goliath
1655 · monotype in brown oil pigment on laid paper
La Mèlancolie
1655 · etching
The Oath of Abraham’s Servant
1650 · oil on canvas
Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1650
- Medium
- Etching on ivory paper
- Dimensions
- Plate: 20.6 × 40.5 cm (8 1/8 × 16 in.); Sheet: 21.7 × 41.2 cm (8 9/16 × 16 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1650-006708
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified