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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
Figures in a landscape with a satyr playing the pipes c. 1645
Red-brown oil paint on paper | 39.9 x 56.0 cm (sheet of paper) | RCIN 904057
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
Figures in a landscape with a satyr playing the pipes c. 1645
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-64)
Figures in a landscape with a satyr playing the pipes c. 1645
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A drawing of a nymph sitting beneath trees with her male companion, while a satyr plays his pipes. Five onlookers, including a child and a man on horseback, stand close by on the left. The two dogs were first sketched standing immediately in front of the pipe-playing satyr, a rare example of a pentimento or change of mind in Castiglione’s oil drawings.
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
Red-brown oil paint on paper
Measurements
39.9 x 56.0 cm (sheet of paper)
