Noah guiding the animals into the Ark

Details

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, called il Grechetto (Genoa 1609-1665 Mantua)
Noah guiding the animals into the Ark
with inscription 'B. Castiglione. ft'
brush and brown ink, brown and grey wash, oil heightened with white (slightly oxidized) on light brown paper
12 5/8 x 9¾ in. (320 x 246 mm.)

Provenance

Baron de Malaussena (L. 1887), his number '104'.
The heirs of the late Professor J.Q. van Regteren Altena; Sotheby's, London, 11 July 2001, lot 14.

Literature

L. Tagliaferro, Il genio di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, exhib. cat., Genoa, Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, 1990, under no. 4.

Exhibited

Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Italiaansche Kunst in Nederlandsch bezit, 1934, no. 520.
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen and Haarlem, Teylers Museum, Le dessin italien dans les collections hollandaises, 1962, no. 170.
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Italiaanse Tekeningen uit een Amsterdamse Particuliere Verzameling, 1970, no. 119, fig. 79.
Philadelphia, Museum of Art, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, 1971, no. 89.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Dr Ann Percy dates the present drawing to 1655-60, and compares the composition to that of drawings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Windsor Castle (A. Percy, op. cit., no. 109, and A. Blunt, The Drawings of G.B. Castiglione & Stefano della Bella in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen at Windsor Castle, London, 1954, no. 162). The composition derives from two early works by Castiglione of circa 1630: a vertical etching of the same subject and a horizontal painting in Florence (A. Percy. op. cit., no. E1 and fig. 1). Another drawing of the same subject is at Windsor Castle (L. Tagliaferro, op. cit., no. 41).

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