Melancholia

before 1647

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione

Artist, Italian, 1609 - 1664

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper, laid down

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 21.5 × 11.3 cm (8 7/16 × 4 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 21.6 × 11.5 cm (8 1/2 × 4 1/2 in.)
    mount: 24.5 × 14.2 cm (9 5/8 × 5 9/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2020.133.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bartsch, no. 26, State i/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA ); purchased 2021 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1802

  • Bartsch, Adam. Le peintre graveur. 21 vols. Vienna, 1802-1821: no. 26, i/iii

1971

  • Percy, Ann. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971: no. E14

1982

  • Bellini, Paolo. L'opera incisa di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione. Milan, 1982, no. 15, i/iv

Inscriptions

in plate, in image, at lower right: G. BENETO / CAS / in.

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