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Pastoral Landscape (recto), Figure, Animal and Landscape Studies (verso)
ca. 1647-1651
Not on view
Even painters not generally disposed to pure landscape such as Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione could not resist the rustic allure of the Roman Campagna. Executed with quick calligraphic strokes, his rare nature study of a scraggly copse dates to around 1650, when the artist was working in Rome. It is not connected to a particular painting or etching but appears to have been created as an independent study of the motif.
- Artist
- Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (il Grechetto)
- Title
- Pastoral Landscape (recto), Figure, Animal and Landscape Studies (verso)
- Date
- ca. 1647-1651
- Object Type
- Drawing
- Medium
- pen and brown ink on laid paper (recto), pen and brown ink (verso), with initials 'G.B.' (upper left)
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 275 x 396 mm (10 13/16 x 15 9/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
- Accession Number
- 1963.24.115r-v
