Christ on the Cross Appearing to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, reverse study for the altarpiece in Santa Maria della Cella, Sampierdarena

ca. 1645

Not on view

Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (il Grechetto)
Title: Christ on the Cross Appearing to St. Bernard of Clairvaux, reverse study for the altarpiece in Santa Maria della Cella, Sampierdarena
Date: ca. 1645
Object Type: Drawing
Medium: pen and brown ink, bron wash on laid paper (watermark, 'three circles pierced by an arrow')
Dimensions: Image: 241 x 167 mm (9 1/2 x 6 9/16 in.) irregular
Credit Line: Museum purchase, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts Endowment Fund
Accession Number: 1965.48

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery), ‘A Selection of Italian Drawings', 1970, no. 54, pp. 62-64 (catalogue by Walter Vitzthum); Philadelphia Museum of Art, ‘Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque', 1971, no. 8, pp. 65-66 (catalogue and entry by Ann Percy); University Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, ‘Regional Styles of Drawing in Italy: 1600-1700', 1977, no. 34, p. 60-6 (entry by Lynn Orr, cat. By Alfred Moir); FAMSF - M.H. de Young Museum, ‘Italian Old Masters' (no catalogue); FAMSF - Legion of Honor, ‘Drawings from the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts', 2 Feb - 24 April 1994 (no catalogue).

Currently on view