David with the Head of Goliath
Catalogue
- Year
- 1655
- Dimensions
- sheet: 34.8 x 24.8 cm (13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
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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1660 · oil and red-brown pigment
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1655 · etching
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1655 · etching on laid paper
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1650 · Etching on ivory paper
Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals
1650 · Etching on ivory laid paper
Record
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- 1655
- Dimensions
- sheet: 34.8 x 24.8 cm (13 11/16 x 9 3/4 in.)
- Watts ID
- WW-1655-274560
Source
- Collection
- National Gallery of Art
- Source
- nga
- Reference
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- Status
- verified