
The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · c. 1655
Provenance
Ownership history
- Dr. Carl Robert Rudolf (1884-1974) [Lugt sup. 2811b.] Sold, Sotheby's, London, May 21, 1963, lot 19, as "Annunciation to the Shepherds." Sold by Richard Zinser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1966.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- London Arts Council Gallery, "Old Master Drawings from the Collection of Mr. C.R. Rudolf," January 5-February 3, 1962; traveled to Leeds City Art Gallery, March 17-April 7, 1962; Birmingham, City Museum and Art Gallery, February 17-March 11, 1962.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque," September 17-November 28, 1971, cat. 57 (ill.).
- The Art Institute of Chicago, August 1, 1988-March 20, 1989.
Literature
Published references
- Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings in The Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago and London, 1979), pp. 58-9, no. 74, reproduced as no. 79.
- Gazette des Beaux Arts, series 6, vol. 69, fig. 291.
- Ann Percy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draftsman of the Italian Baroque (Philadelphia, 1971), pp. 94-5, no. 57.
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