Tobit Burying the Dead
Artist: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609-1664)
Location: National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Date: circa 1655 - 1660
Materials: oil on paper
Dimensions: 41 x 54 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,000 (Total: £1,500)
Vendor: Herbert Bier
Review number: 2391 (1970)
Provenance:
H.Hone (1718-1784).
Description:
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 Hitherto unpublished but linked with etching in Witt Collection.
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