Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto (Genoa 1609-1664 Mantua)

Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Details

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto (Genoa 1609-1664 Mantua)
Saint Catherine of Alexandria
oil on paper, lower left corner made up
14¾ x 10½ in. (375 x 267 mm.)

Provenance

G. Vallardi (L. 1223), his shelfmark 'M.337' (verso); Paris, 10-15 December 1860, part of lot 75 (25 Francs).
With P. & D. Colnaghi, London, 1988.

Lot Essay

Close in handling and figure type to a drawing of Saint Jerome in Meditation in Darmstadt, datable to 1655-60 (A. Percy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, exhib. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1971, no. 94).

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