Lot 223
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Francesco Castiglione* (died 1716)

Details
Francesco Castiglione* (died 1716)

Tobit burying the Dead in defiance of the Orders of Sennacherib (Tobit I, 18ff.)

oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31¾in. (65 x 80.6cm.)
Exhibited
Wilmington, DE, Delaware Art Museum, Mostly Baroque, Italian Paintings and Drawings from the Carlo Croce Collection, April 24-June 14, 1992, as Giovanni Battista Castiglione (no catalogue).

Lot Essay

The subject is taken from the Book of Tobit, one of the books of the Old Testament Apocrypha. The story tells of Tobit, a pious Jew, who was exiled to Nineveh in Assyria. In defiance of the King's orders, he observed the precepts of Hebrew law by burying the dead.