The Creation of Adam

1. Edward Cavendish, (1895-1950), 10th Duke of Devonshire, Chatworth, Derbyshire, England, by 1925 [Calabi 1925]; by descent to his son, Andrew Cavendish (1920-2004), 11th Duke of Devonshire, Chatworth, Derbyshire, England; Trustees of the Chatworth Settlement, by 1971 [Philadelphia 1971]; sold Christie's, London, Dec. 5, 1985, lot 161, to C.G. Boerner, Düsseldorf, for the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque," Sept. 17-Nov. 28, 1971, pp. 150 and 151 (Ill.), cat. M1.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century," Oct. 16-Dec. 7, 1980, pp. 68-69, cat. 5 (ill.); also Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Jan. 24-Mar. 22, 1981.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Italian Etchers of the Renaissance and Baroque: Parmigianino to Luca Giordano," Jan. 24-Mar. 26, 1989, pp. 253 and 262 (ill.); also Cleveland Museum of Art, Apr. 18-June 18, 1989.
• New York, Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by the Art Institute of Chicago," Apr. 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 13; also the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 10, 1991-Jan. 5, 1992.
• New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Genoa: Drawings and Prints, 1530-1800," Apr. 23-July 10, 1996, p. 52 (ill.), cat. 56.
• The Art Institute of Chicago, "Lines of Connection: Drawing and Printmaking 1400-1850", March 15 - June 1, 2025, pp. 178-80, 201-4, 214, fig.144 (ill.), cat. by Jamie Gabbarelli, Edina Adam, et. al.

• Augusto Calabi, “Castiglione Monotypes: A Supplement,” The Print Collector’s Quarterly 12:4 (Dec. 1925), pp. 437 (ill.) and 438, no. 13 (ill.).
• Giuseppe Delogu, G. B. Castiglione detto il Grechetto (Bologna: Casa editrice Apollo, 1928), p. 54, no. 14.
• Augusto Calabi, “Castiglione's Monotypes: A Second Supplement,” The Print Collector’s Quarterly 17:3 (July 1930), p. 299 and 301.
• Richard S. Field, “The Painterly Print,” Print Collector’s Newsletter 11 (1981), pp. 202–04.
• Donata Minonzio, “I monotipi di G.B. Castiglione,” in L’opera incise di Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Milan: Ripartizione Cultura e Spettacolo, 1982), p. 207, no. 1 (ill.).
• Sue Welsh Reed, “Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione’s ‘God Creating Adam’: The First Masterpiece in the Monotype Medium” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 17, 1 (1991), pp. 66–73, 94–95 (ill.).
• James N. Wood and Sally Ruth May, The Art Institute of Chicago: The Essential Guide (Chicago, 1993), p. 194 (ill.).
• Kurt Wisneski, Monotype/Monoprint: History and Techniques (Bullbrier Press, 1995), pp. 27–30.
• David P. Becker, “Monotype,” in Dictionary of Art, ed. Jane Turner (1996), vol. 21, pp. 894–97 (ill.).
• Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood, with commentaries by Debra N. Mancoff (Chicago, 2000), p. 119 (ill.).
• The Essential Guide (Chicago, 2009), p. 292 (ill.).

A Pagan Sacrifice

Art Institute of Chicago

Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals

Art Institute of Chicago

Diogenes Seeking an Honest Man

Art Institute of Chicago

Mourners Over the Dead Christ

Art Institute of Chicago

Melancholia

Art Institute of Chicago

Noah and the Animals Entering the Ark

Art Institute of Chicago

The Angel Departing from the Family of Tobit (?)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Genius of Castiglione

Art Institute of Chicago

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