A young shepherd with a flock c. 1630-35
Yellowish-brown oil paint on paper | 24.5 x 38.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904016
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A drawing of a shepherd with his flock, two dogs, and a laden horse, emerging from woodland towards a landscape with smoke from a chimney clouding the sky Castiglione’s earliest known works are pastoral landscapes, a genre that was a speciality of minor Genoese painters, and he was to return to this subject matter throughout his life.
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
Yellowish-brown oil paint on paper
Measurements
24.5 x 38.6 cm (sheet of paper)
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