Art Funded
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 Hitherto unpublished but linked with etching in Witt Collection.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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