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A Pagan Sacrifice
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · c. 1645–50
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sir William Drake (died 1890), London [Lugt 736]. E. Parsons, London, by 1928 [according to Philadelphia 1971] Lord Kenneth Clark, Saltwood; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 20, 1967, Clark sale, lot 11, to Mrs. Slatkin, London [according addenda in sales catalogue]; sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- New York, Charles E. Slatkin Gallery, "Master Drawings," 1967.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque," September 17-November 28, 1971, cat. 21.
- St. Louis Art Museum, "Italian Drawings Selected from Mid-Western Collections," February 23-April 16, 1972, cat. 38.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago," 1979-1980, cat. 72, by Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh; also traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
- Miami, Fla., Center for the Fine Arts, "In Quest of Excellence," October 27, 1983-January 29, 1984.
- The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 36-37, cat. 7 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi.
Literature
Published references
- "Art and Auction: The Year at Sotheby's and Parke-Benet, 1966-67" (New York, 1967), pp. 105 and 108 (ill.).
- Harold Joachim, Italian Drawings of the 18th and 19th Centuries and Spanish Drawings of the 17th Through 19th Centuries (Chicago, 1980), no. 4C11.
- Shelley Perlove and George S. Keyes (editors).
- Seventeenth-Century European Drawings in Midwestern Collections (University of Notre Dame Press, 2014), pp. 22, 52 no. 14, 53 (ill.)
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