Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark

Provenance

Probably 18th-century French private collection (copied by Jean-Jacques Lagrenée in 1776). Private collection (sale, Sotheby's, Monaco, 20 February 1988, no. 230); (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London); Gilbert Butler, New York, 1988; partial and promised gift to NGA, 1991.

Noah Leading the Animals into the Ark

Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto

c. 1645

Accession Number

1991.221.1

Medium

brush and oil paint on brown laid paper

Dimensions

overall: 39.4 x 54.8 cm (15 1/2 x 21 9/16 in.)

Classification

Drawing

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Partial Gift of Gilbert Butler, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art