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A Pagan Sacrifice
Giovanni Benedetto CastiglioneLinkedCulture matchlcp-d63eba601c72
- Date
- c. 1645–50
- Medium
- Oil paint on tan laid paper, laid down on cream wove paper
- Culture
- Italy
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Object ID
- 28813
From the Art Institute of Chicago record
This monumental painting on paper, formerly in the collection of Lord Kenneth Clark, is a superb example of Castiglione's mature style. It demonstrates not only the impact of artists he encountered in Rome, such as Rubens and Poussin, but also the audacious technical innovations he initiated, painting fluently with pigment and oil on paper. The obscure pagan subject was undoubtedly aimed at a select and erudite Roman audience.
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- Credit line
- Clarence Buckingham Collection
- Provenance
- Sir William Drake (died 1890), London [Lugt 736]. E. Parsons, London, by 1928 [according to Philadelphia 1971] Lord Kenneth Clark, Saltwood; sold, Sotheby's, London, April 20, 1967, Clark sale, lot 11, to Mrs. Slatkin, London [according addenda in sales catalogue]; sold by Charles Slatkin Galleries, New York, to the Art Institute, 1968.
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- Object type
- AAT300033973
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