Giovanni Benedetto CASTIGLIONE, detto il Grechetto. 1609-1664 Testa di uomo con grandi baffi volto a sinistra. 1645-1650 ca. Acquaforte. Foglio: 184x148 mm. Inciso: 182x174 mm. Firmato sulla lastra in alto a sinistra: CASTILIONUS / GENOVESE. Carta vergellata, traccia di filigrana. Bell’esemplare. Questa acquaforte rappresenta il motivo di una testa orientale esotica a cui Castiglione tornò più volte negli anni Quaranta del Seicento. Forse in parte ispirate dai commercianti stranieri che frequentavano la città portuale di Genova, queste teste di personaggi derivano anche dalle stampe di Rembrandt e Jan Lievens. Dalla serie delle Grandi teste con copricapi orientali.Bartsch, XXI, (1821), 33, n. 49; Bellini 1982, 134.
Condition Report
Bearded head in profile to the left.c.1645/50 Etching. Sheet: 184x148 mm. Plate: 182x174 mm. Signed, upper left: CASTILIONUS / GENOVESE. Laid paper, trace of watermark. Good specimen. During the 1640s Castiglione produced two series of etchings of heads, both large and small. He explored a wide range of cultural and physiognomic types – crooked and aquiline noses, turbans and elaborate jewellery, figures reading a scroll or blowing a horn. Castiglione was not merely entertaining the viewer: he was also demonstrating his inventiveness and his ability to produce dramatic lighting with nothing more than an etcher’s needle. From the series 'Heads in Oriental Headdress'Bartsch, XXI, (1821), 33, n. 49; Bellini 1982, 134-136.
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