An angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people
Drawing
1647 (made)
1647 (made)
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Pen and ink and wash drawing depicting an angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people, possibly the death of the first-born in Egypt (Exodus I I: 1-8 and 12: 29-42).
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Title | An angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people (generic title) |
Materials and techniques | Pen and ink and wash |
Brief description | Pen and wash drawing by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, known as Il Grechetto, depicting an angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people. Italy, 1647. |
Physical description | Pen and ink and wash drawing depicting an angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people, possibly the death of the first-born in Egypt (Exodus I I: 1-8 and 12: 29-42). |
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Bibliographic reference | Ward-Jackson, Peter, Italian Drawings, Volume Two: 17th-18th Century , London, 1979, p.35 , cat. n. 666, illus.
The following is the full text of the entry:
CASTIGLIONE, GIOVANNI BENEDETTO
known as il Grechetto
(c. 1610-63/65)
666
An angel with a sword passing over a group of dead or stricken people: possibly the death of the first-born in Egypt (Exodus I I: 1-8 and 12: 29-42)
Inscribed in ink '47'
Pen and ink and wash
10 X 14 3/4 (254 x 374) CAI.829
PROVENANCE Robt Cole (the name is stamped, blind, in the bottom left corner); Ionides Bequest 1901 (Lugt 488)
LITERATURE Ionides Catalogue, p. 19 (as anonymous)
Catalogued till lately as anonymous, 18th century, but manifestly by Castiglione. Among the touches characteristic of him are the square, wide open mouths, filled with vertical shading like a grill, and the short parallel hatching lines placed in small bunches close together. Another characteristic feature is the contorted attitude of the corpse on the left. A corpse in exactly the same posture occurs in a drawing of Tobit burying the dead attributed to Castiglione in the Witt Collection (Courtauld Institute, London; illustrated in A. Blunt, 'A Poussin-Castiglione problem' in The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 3, 1939-40, p. 144, pI. 27b). Both drawings may be included in that group of pen and wash drawings which Blunt dates about 1640-45 (Blunt, Castiglione, pp. 30-1, nos. 18-30). |
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Accession number | CAI.829 |
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Record created | June 30, 2009 |
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