Noah Directing Animals into the Ark

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Artist Italian, Artist
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About the Artwork

Noah Directing Animals into the Ark

late 17th century

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Artist) Italian, 1616 - 1670 (Artist) Italian

Red chalk on cream antique laid paper

Sheet: 11 15/16 × 10 5/16 inches (30.3 × 26.2 cm)

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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1SDR57

This work is in the public domain.

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Inscribed, in pencil, lower right: B. Castiglione Inscribed, in pencil, upper right, verso: N87 | S83 Inscribed, in pencil, lower right, verso: N.87 Inscribed, in pen and black ink, lower left center: Castillion

Stamp, in black, right edge: Adolphe Schuster and Count Gelosi (Lugt 545) Stamp, in black, lower center: [unidentified collector, possibly Austrian] (Lugt 622)

Provenance

Adolphe Schuster and Count Gelosi [or Gelozzi] (Turin, Italy). unidentified collector (possibly Austria). C.J. Meyer (Carlsbad)

September 1887, James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Italian, French, English, and Spanish Drawings and Watercolors: Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. New York, 1992, pp. 284-285, no. A25.

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Italian; after Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Noah Directing Animals into the Ark, late 17th century, red chalk on cream antique laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1SDR57.

Noah Directing Animals into the Ark
Noah Directing Animals into the Ark