Diogenes Seeking an Honest Man
The Charles Deering Collection
Catalogue
- Year
- 1645
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.9 × 30.6 cm (8 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 31 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
Artist
Painting
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione was an Italian Baroque painter, printmaker and draftsman, of the Genoese school. He is best known now for his etchings, and as the inventor of the printmaking technique of monotyping. He was known as Il Grechetto in Italy and in France as Le Benédette.
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Record
Verified by WattsOS- Year
- 1645
- Dimensions
- Image: 21.9 × 30.6 cm (8 5/8 × 12 1/16 in.); Plate: 22 × 31 cm (8 11/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1645-332127
Source
- Collection
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Source
- aic
- Reference
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- Status
- verified