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Tobit Burying the Dead

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664)

National Gallery of Victoria Australia

circa 1655 - 1660

Buries bodies of Jews killed by Sennacherib. Accompanied by a lamenting boy. To right, sarcophagus; in front of it a corpse to which a porter is about to add another. Figures above temple and to far left. Hitherto unpublished but linked with etching in Witt Collection.

  • Medium: oil on paper
  • Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
  • Art Fund Grant: £1000 ( Total: £1,500)
  • ArtFunded in: 1970
  • Vendor: Herbert Bier

Provenance

H.Hone (1718-1784).


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