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Young Hunter with His Dogs in a Landscape

Young Hunter with His Dogs in a Landscape

A Collection of Original Etchings, Consisting of 7 by Rembrandt; 6 after Rembrant by Vivares; 25 by Claude, 1660; 3 by Dominique Barrière, 1651; 5 by Horizonti; 47 by Hollar, 1641-1647; 6 by Theodre van Kessel, 1654; 10 by Runciman; 17 by Cornelis Bega, 1654; 24 by Castiglione; 7 by Silvestre; 43 by Various Artists after Rembrandt, Du Jardin, Della Bella, etc., 200 plates

A Collection of Original Etchings, Consisting of 7 by Rembrandt; 6 after Rembrant by Vivares; 25 by Claude, 1660; 3 by Dominique Barrière, 1651; 5 by Horizonti; 47 by Hollar, 1641-1647; 6 by Theodre van Kessel, 1654; 10 by Runciman; 17 by Cornelis Bega, 1654; 24 by Castiglione; 7 by Silvestre; 43 by Various Artists after Rembrandt, Du Jardin, Della Bella, etc., 200 plates

Design for a Framing Motif

Design for a Framing Motif

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A Congress of Animals

Giovanni Francesco Castiglione  (Italian, Genoa 1641–1710 Genoa)

Date:
1641–1710
Medium:
Pen and brown ink, brush and watercolor, over traces of black chalk
Dimensions:
8-1/8 x 12-1/8 in. (20.7 x 30.8 cm)
Classification:
Drawings
Credit Line:
Rogers Fund, 1908
Accession Number:
08.227.25

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  • Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

    Inscription: Annotated in pen and brown ink at lower border, Francesco Castiglione in graphite at lower border of old mount, B. West's.

  • Provenance

    "Reliable Venetian Hand" ; Benjamin West (American, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania 1738–1820 London)- according to annotation on old mount; William Esdaile (British, 1758–1837 London)

  • References

    Alessandro Bettagno Disegni di una collezione veneziana del Settecento Exh. cat., Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice. Venice, 1966, cat. no. 50, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Felice Stampfle Drawings from New York Collections, Vol. II: The Seventeenth Century in Italy Exh. cat., Pierpont Morgan Library and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. New York, February 23-April 22, 1967, cat. no. 118, ill.

    Ann Percy Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971, cat. no. 121, fig. no. 121, pp. 129-130, ill.

    Jacob Bean, Lawrence Turcic 17th Century Italian Drawings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1979, cat. no. 114, fig. no. 114, p. 85, ill.

    Carmen C. Bambach, Nadine Orenstein, William M. Griswold, Allegra Pesenti Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800 Exhibition: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996, cat. no. 27, p. 31.



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