Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
Women and children praying before a tomb c. 1640-45
Red-brown oil paint on paper | 55.2 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904081
-
A drawing of women and children praying before a sarcophagus on a plinth upon which also stands an urn, a herm, and a statue. Three figures look on from beneath trees on the left. This is a larger and more expansive recasting of Castiglione’s pen drawing of a few years earlier (RCIN 903997).
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
-
Medium and techniques
Red-brown oil paint on paper
Measurements
55.2 x 40.0 cm (sheet of paper)
Object type(s)
