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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Bearded Old Man with Head and Eyes Lowered, Wearing a Turban, 17th century
etching printed in black ink on tissue
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Artist Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Italian, 1616 - 1670
Title
  • Bearded Old Man with Head and Eyes Lowered, Wearing a Turban
  • Small Studies of Heads in Oriental Headdress (series title)
Date 17th century
Medium etching printed in black ink on tissue
Dimensions Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 4 3/8 × 3 1/4 inches (11.1 × 8.3 cm)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
Accession Number 09.1S268.14
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed in plate, upper left: CASTILIONVS | GENOVESE
Marks Scripps stamp, verso (Lugt Suppl. 2357a)
Inscriptions Inscribed, illegible notation in plate above artist's name, upper left: [ ]MED.S
December 1885, M. Bruckner.
1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)