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

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Geffen Galleries, Model Lives in Baroque Italy

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: 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.