The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)

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Prints and Drawings

c. 1655

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Italian, 1609-1664

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Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Title: The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)
Place: Italy (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1645–1674
Medium: Red oil paint on ivory laid paper
Dimensions: 41.9 × 54.6 cm (16 1/2 × 21 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Clarence Buckingham Collection
Reference Number: 1966.34
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Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 58-9, no. 74, reproduced as no. 79.
Gazette des Beaux Arts, series 6, vol. 69, fig. 291.
Ann Percy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque (Philadelphia, 1971), pp. 94-5, no. 57.

London Arts Council Gallery, “Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf,” January 5-February 3, 1962; traveled to Leeds City Art Gallery, March 17-April 7, 1962; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, February 17-March 11, 1962.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, “Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque,” September 17-November 28, 1971, cat. 57 (ill.).
The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1, 1988-March 20, 1989.

Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf (1884-1974) [Lugt sup. 2811b.] Sold, Sotheby’s, London, May 21, 1963, lot 19, as “Annunciation to the Shepherds.” Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.

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