Old Man Wearing a Turban Ornamented with Fur, Facing Right, from Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Prints and Drawings

Artist

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Title

Old Man Wearing a Turban Ornamented with Fur, Facing Right, from Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress

Place

Italy (Artist's nationality:)

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1645–1650

Medium

Etching in black on cream wove paper

Inscriptions

Signed upper left, in plate: "BG / CASTIGLIONE / GENOVESE"; inscribed lower right, below plate, in graphite: "94 - 134 - 87 Cen"

Dimensions

Image/plate: 11 × 8.1 cm (4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.); Sheet: 17.3 × 13.9 cm (6 13/16 × 5 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Marjorie Kreilick McNab

Reference Number

2015.566

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