ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO Y SAAVEDRA (CÓRDOBA 1616-1668)

Saint John the Baptist leaning against a tree

Details

ANTONIO DEL CASTILLO Y SAAVEDRA (CÓRDOBA 1616-1668)
Saint John the Baptist leaning against a tree
pen and brown ink, fragmentary watermark
10 ¾ x 8 ¼ in. (27.5 x 21 cm), corners made up

Provenance

Meller Collection, Paris.

Literature

B. Navarrete Prieto and F. García de la Torre, Antonio del Castillo (1616-1668). Dibujos. Catálogo Razonado, Santander, 2008, no. 80, ill.

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Lot Essay

In addition to this drawing, Castillo treated Saint John in a composition of which two autograph, smaller versions exist, both in Madrid (Museo del la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, inv. D/2149; Biblioteca Nacional, inv. Barcia 298/ Dib/ 13/2/62; see Navarrete Prieto and García de la Torre, op. cit., nos. 81, 82, ill.). The sheet offered here has been dated to the 1650s.

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