DrawingsItalian17th century

Rebecca Returning with Jacob (?)

17th century

Artists

Giovanni Benedetto CastiglioneArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Brown ink and gray wash on off-white antique laid paper, laid down

Culture

Italian

Century

17th century

Division

European and American Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

24.7 × 36.4 cm (9 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

Provenance

Robert Gilmor, Jr., Baltimore, MD; to his estate, 1848; to probably Gardner L. Chandler, Salem, MA; to John Witt Randall, Boston, MA, bequest; to his sister Belinda L. Randall, 1892, gift; to Harvard University, 1892.

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