About the Artwork
Diogenes Searching For an Honest Man
between 1645 and 1647
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1616 - 1670
Italian
Unknown
Etching printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 8 5/8 × 11 inches (21.9 × 27.9 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps
09.1S267
Public Domain
Markings
Inscribed in plate, bottom margin: [lengthy Latin inscription]
Provenance
March 1888, Gabrielli Sale (Rome, Italy). 1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Percy, A. Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione: Master Draughtsman of the Italian Baroque. Philadelphia, 1971, p. 142, E15.
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Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Diogenes Searching For an Honest Man, between 1645 and 1647, etching printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S267.
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