GIOVANNI BENEDETTO CASTIGLIONE
10 The Expulsion of Hagar
Red-brown, blue-green, and white oil paint and brush
on tan paper; H: 28. 9 cm (ii^3 /s in.); W: 41.6 cm (i6^3 /8 in.)
83.00.376 (SEE PLATE 5)
MARKS AND INSCRIPTIONS: (Recto) at bottom right
corner, collection marks of marquis de Lagoy (L. 1710);
at bottom, left of center, collection mark of V. C. col-
lection (L. 2508); (verso) on mount, inscribed 97, 16. £24
in brown ink.
PROVENANCE: Marquis de Lagoy, Aix-en-Provence;
V. C. collection; sale, Hotel Drouot, Paris, 1982; art mar-
ket, Paris.
EXHIBITIONS: None.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: None.THIS HERETOFORE UNPUBLISHED DRAWING IS ONE OF
four autograph depictions of this theme by Castiglione.
The others are at Chats worth (inv. 6I9)^1 and in the Al-
bertina, Vienna (inv. 2842, 2843).^2 In its graphic manner,
the Museum's version is closest to the one at Chats worth,
which is vertical in format, however. Based on Percy's
dating of the Chats worth drawing to the late 1640 s,^3 the
Museum's sheet appears also to have been made in Rome
at that time. One of the drawings in Vienna (inv. 2842)
is also a vertical composition, containing only three fig-
ures. The other is horizontal, but is quite different from
the Museum's drawing in that the principal figures are
centrally placed, and there are five rather than three on-
lookers at the left. The style of the second sheet in Vienna
is looser and less monumental than that of the Museum's
sheet. The Museum's version is highly Poussinesque in
character, with the figures balanced carefully along the
foreground plane in front of a rather dry architectural
backdrop. The rich pictorial flavor of the drawing is en-
hanced by brilliant colorism and the judicious application
of white highlights.^41. A. Percy, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione—Master Draughts-
man of the Italian Baroque, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of
Art, 1971, no. 17.- A. StixandA. Spitzrrmller, Beschreibender Katalog der Hand-
zeichnungen in der Staatlichen Graphischen Sammlung Albertina,
vol. 6 (Vienna, 1941), pp. 49, no. 528, pi. 115; 48, no. 513, pi.
no. - Percy (note i), p. 69.
- The Museum's drawing was copied in prints by Chasteau
(Parma, Biblioteca Palatina, inv. 4095) andCoypel (M. Huber,
Catalogue raisonne du cabinet d'estampes defeu Monsieur Winckler,
vol. 2 [Leipzig, 1803], p. 115, no. 505).
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