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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
Studies of dromedaries and goats c. 1630
Pen and ink | 18.3 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 903945
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A sheet of three studies of goats, and three studies of dromedaries This is perhaps the earliest surviving work by Castiglione. Like most young artists, he would have learned to draw by copying established motifs – dromedaries were not to be found in even as cosmopolitan a city as Genoa.
Provenance
Probably Carlo II and Fernandino-Carlo Gonzaga, 9th and 10th Dukes of Mantua; Zaccaria Sagredo; from whose heirs purchased by Joseph Smith, British Consul in Venice, 1752; from whom purchased by George III, 1762
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Medium and techniques
Pen and ink
Measurements
18.3 x 20.6 cm (sheet of paper)
