Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

A Superb Baroque: Art in Genoa, 1600-1750

National Gallery of Art

22 documented works

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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.)

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Piola, Domenico

A Satyr Entertaining His Family

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.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Bearded Man in a Fur Cap, Facing Left

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.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Bearded Man with Shadowed Face, Wearing a Scarf and a Plumed Hat

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.)

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Biscaino, Bartolomeo

Fantastic Landscape with a Man Sleeping on a Rock

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.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

God the Father and Angels Adoring the Christ Child

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.)

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Benso, Giulio

Madonna and Child with Angels, Saint Benedict, and Saint Scholastica

1629

pen and brown ink with brown wash, squared in graphite, on laid paper, laid down on old mount

sheet: 35.1 × 23.6 cm (13 13/16 × 9 5/16 in.) mount: 40.9 × 30.2 cm (16 1/8 × 11 7/8 in.) framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Man with a Beard and a Tassled Headdress, Facing Left

c. 1645/1647

etching on laid paper

plate: 18 × 15 cm (7 1/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 31.6 × 23.2 cm (12 7/16 × 9 1/8 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Man with a Long Beard and Headdress, Facing Right

c. 1645/1647

etching on laid paper

plate: 18.7 × 13.3 cm (7 3/8 × 5 1/4 in.) sheet: 32 × 23 cm (12 5/8 × 9 1/16 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

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Piola, Paolo Gerolamo

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

1720/1724

pen and brown ink with brown wash and black chalk, heightened with white gouache on gray-blue laid paper

sheet: 34.6 × 49.2 cm (13 5/8 × 19 3/8 in.) mount: 42.5 × 29 cm (16 3/4 × 11 7/16 in.) framed: 56.52 × 66.68 cm (22 1/4 × 26 1/4 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Old Man with a Long Beard and Skullcap, Leaning Forward

c. 1645/1647

etching on laid paper

plate: 18.2 × 14.9 cm (7 3/16 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 31.7 × 23 cm (12 1/2 × 9 1/16 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

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Ferrari, Gregorio De

Saint Michael and the Rebel Angels

c. 1682

pen and brown ink with brush and brown wash, heightened with white, over traces of black chalk, on gray-green paper

sheet: 47 × 29.1 cm (18 1/2 × 11 7/16 in.) framed: 76.84 × 61.6 cm (30 1/4 × 24 1/4 in.)

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Guidobono, Bartolomeo

Seated Sibyl

c. 1690

brush and brown, blue, and gray ink over black chalk and graphite, heightened with white on laid paper

overall: 39.2 × 26.8 cm (15 7/16 × 10 9/16 in.) framed: 62.23 × 46.99 cm (24 1/2 × 18 1/2 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

Self-Portrait(?), Wearing a Plumed Cap ["Portrait of Bernini"]

c. 1645/1647

etching on laid paper

plate: 18.9 × 13.6 cm (7 7/16 × 5 3/8 in.) sheet: 31.9 × 23 cm (12 9/16 × 9 1/16 in.) framed: 40.01 × 32.39 cm (15 3/4 × 12 3/4 in.)

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Ferrari, Lorenzo De

Study of an Angel in Flight

c. 1738

black chalk on blue laid paper, squared for transfer

sheet: 54.9 × 39.4 cm (21 5/8 × 15 1/2 in.) framed: 76.2 × 60.96 cm (30 × 24 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

The Adoration of the Shepherds

1650/1655

oil on laid paper; laid down

overall: 41.2 × 60.9 cm (16 1/4 × 24 in.) framed: 66.04 × 86.36 cm (26 × 34 in.)

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Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

The Animals Going toward the Ark

1650/1655

etching on laid paper

sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 20.7 × 39.8 cm (8 1/8 × 15 11/16 in.) framed: 44.45 × 59.69 cm (17 1/2 × 23 1/2 in.)

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Biscaino, Bartolomeo

The Nativity

c. 1655

etching on laid paper

plate: 39.5 × 28 cm (15 9/16 × 11 in.) framed: 59.69 × 44.45 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

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Tavella, Carlo Antonio

The Rest on the Flight into Egypt

c. 1720

pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, heightened with white, on laid paper

sheet: 39 × 29.9 cm (15 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.) mount: 40.5 × 31.1 cm (15 15/16 × 12 1/4 in.) framed: 59.69 × 44.45 cm (23 1/2 × 17 1/2 in.)

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Lomi, Aurelio

The Stoning of Saint Stephen

c. 1602

pen and ink with oil over chalk on four sheets of paper

sheet: 94.5 × 78 cm (37 3/16 × 30 11/16 in.) framed: 106.5 × 86.5 × 5.5 cm (41 15/16 × 34 1/16 × 2 3/16 in.)

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Piola, Domenico

Tobit Burying the Dead

c. 1650/1660

pen and brown ink with brown wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper, laid down on old album mount

sheet: 29 × 42.5 cm (11 7/16 × 16 3/4 in.) framed: 54.61 × 67.31 cm (21 1/2 × 26 1/2 in.)

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Palmieri, Giuseppe

Vision of the Immaculate Conception

1732

brush with brown wash, pen and brown ink, and white heightening over black chalk on coarse laid paper

overall: 66 × 48.9 cm (26 × 19 1/4 in.) framed: 97.16 × 76.84 cm (38 1/4 × 30 1/4 in.)

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