Museum Exhibition

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition artworks

Representative work

Magnasco, Alessandro

A Penitent at a Quaker Sermon

c. 1710-1720

brush and brown wash with white heightening on paper washed gray brown

sheet: 32.5 × 24.1 cm (12 13/16 × 9 1/2 in.) framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

Featured works

Piola, Domenico

1690s

pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper

sheet: 28 × 24.5 cm (11 × 9 5/8 in.) mount: 40.6 × 32.4 cm (16 × 12 3/4 in.) framed: 60.96 × 45.72 cm (24 × 18 in.)

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

c. 1645/1647

etching on laid paper

plate: 18.2 × 14.7 cm (7 3/16 × 5 13/16 in.) sheet: 32.1 × 23.1 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/8 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

1645/1650

etching on laid paper

plate: 18.1 × 14.6 cm (7 1/8 × 5 3/4 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 23 cm (12 7/16 × 9 1/16 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

Biscaino, Bartolomeo

1650s

red chalk, heightened with white gouache on light tan laid paper

sheet: 34.8 × 27.2 cm (13 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.) mount: 41.1 × 33.4 cm (16 3/16 × 13 1/8 in.) framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

c. 1655

etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 20.6 x 40.3 cm (8 1/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

22 documented works in this exhibition