Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: The Museum Year 2011
The Year
Acquisitions
Prints, Drawings, and Photographs: July 2009–June 2011
Noah and the animals approaching the ark
about 1650–55
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
Sheet: 20.5 x 40.2 cm (8 1/16 x 15 13/16 in.)
Etching
Classification: Prints
Accession number: 2010.1310
Provenance/Ownership History: Between the 1950s and 1980s, acquired by Samuel Josefowitz (Lausanne, Switzerland and Whitchurch, England); March 19, 2004, sold by Josefowitz to Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo (Naples, FL); 2010, gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 26, 2011)
Gift of Eijk and Rose-Marie van Otterloo