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Nymph suprised by satyrs

Drawing
ca. 1630-1664 (made)
Artist/Maker
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto (artist)
Place of origin
Italy (drawn)

Nymph surprised by satyrs, or Pan and Syrinx with a River God; Two children in the foreground; Drawn with the brush with bistre and tinted in parts with body colours.

Object details

Categories
Drawings
Myths & Legends
Object type
Drawing
TitleNymph suprised by satyrs
Materials and techniques
drawn with the brush with bistre and tinted in parts with body colours
Bistre
Body Colour
Drawing
Brush-Work
Tinting
Brief description
Nymph surprised by satyrs, or Pan and Syrinx with a River God; Two children in the foreground; Drawn with the brush with bistre and tinted in parts with body colours; By Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione; Genoese School; ca. 1630-1664.
Physical description
Nymph surprised by satyrs, or Pan and Syrinx with a River God; Two children in the foreground; Drawn with the brush with bistre and tinted in parts with body colours.
Dimensions
  • Sheet height: 420mm
  • Sheet width: 530mm
Original measurements converted from fractional inches into decimal inches (rounded to one decimal place). Dimensions taken from: DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874. 16.2 x 20.7 inches
Style
Genoese School
Credit line
Bequeathed by Rev. Alexander Dyce
Subjects depicted
Nymph
Satyrs
Children
Bibliographic references
  • DYCE COLLECTION. A Catalogue of the Paintings, Miniatures, Drawings, Engravings, Rings and Miscellaneous Objects Bequeathed by The Reverend Alexander Dyce. London : South Kensington Museum, 1874.
  • Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p.36 , cat. n. 668,illus. The following is the full text of the entry: CASTIGLIONE, GIOVANNI BENEDETTO known as il Grechetto (c. 1610-63/65) 668 Pan and Syrinx, with a river god personifying the River Ladon, and two putti Red and brown oil paint, slightly coloured in blue, green and violet, and heightened with white 16 1/4 x 20 5/8 (412 x 524) Dyce 347 PROVENANCE Dyce Bequest 1869 LITERATURE Dyce Catalogue no. 347 (as by Castiglione); Exhibition Catalogue, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971, no. 63; pl. 63 Dated in the mid-50s by Anne Percy in the catalogue quoted. The composition is based on a picture of the same subject by Poussin at Dresden, painted about 1637 (O. Grautoff, Nicholas Poussin, 1914, 2, p. 108, no. 66 and Anthony Blunt, The pictures of Nicholas Poussin, London, 1966, p. 122, no. 171). Castiglione has reversed the design, while preserving the same arrangement for the three central figures. Three other drawings by him of the same subject are known. Two of them, at Windsor and Chatsworth, are sketches in pen and ink and wash, dated by Blunt about 1634-40 (see Blunt, Castiglione, p. 28, no. 8 and fig. 6). They are also based on Poussin's painting, and the one at Chatsworth was formerly attributed to Poussin (see W. Friedlaender, Drawings of Nicholas Poussin, 3, 1953, p. 40). In these two drawings the composition is not reversed. The third drawing, also at Windsor, is a sketch in red oil paint and is less closely related to Poussin's picture (see Blunt, Castiglione, p. 35, no. 105 and pl. 13)
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
DYCE.347

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
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