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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (called il Grechetto)
Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge1650-1655

On view:
Geffen Galleries, floor 3
Oil painting of a resting ox, sheep, and a pack horse surrounded by scattered metal pots, ceramics, and a cat, with a figure in blue and a rocky landscape behind

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (called il Grechetto), Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge, 1650-1655, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (called il Grechetto)
Italy, Genoa, 1609-1664
Title
Noah's Sacrifice after the Deluge
Place Made
Italy
Date Made
1650-1655
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 55 1/4 × 76 1/4 in. (140.34 × 193.68 cm) Frame: 66 × 86 × 3 1/2 in. (167.64 × 218.44 × 8.89 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.84.18
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
European Painting and Sculpture
Provenance

Probably Carlo II Gonzaga, Mantua. The Hon. John Spencer, Althorp, Northampton, by 1742, then by descent until 1984, sold to; [Wildenstein & Co, New York, sold 1984 to]; LACMA.

Selected Bibliography
  • Schaefer, Scott, and Peter Fusco. European Painting and Sculpture in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: an Illustrated Summary Catalogue. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1987.

  • Conisbee, Philip et al. The Ahmanson Gifts: European Masterpieces in the Collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.


  • Marandel, J. Patrice. Abecedario: Collecting and Recollecting. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues; LACMA, 2017.

  • Lehmbeck, Leah, editor. Gifts of European Art from The Ahmanson Foundation. Vol. 1, Italian Painting and Sculpture. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2019.
  • Gardner, James. "Baroque Pearls." The Magazine Antiques 187, no.5 (2020): 100-107.
  • Bober, Jonathan, Piero Boccardo, and Franco Boggero. A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750. Washington: National Gallery of Art, 2020.