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A Bearded Man in a Plumed Headdress

Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Italian, 1609–1665)
late 1640s

Medium/Technique Etching
Dimensions Sheet: 19.1 x 14.1 cm (7 1/2 x 5 9/16 in.)
Platemark: 18.7 x 13.6 cm (7 3/8 x 5 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Lydia Evans Tunnard in memory of W. G. Russell Allen
Accession Number64.2228
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Bartsch 48; Illustrated Bartsch 48, only state
Marks Verso, upper left, stamped in brown ink, the mark of the MFA (Lugt 282)
ProvenanceWilliam Goodwin Russell Allen (b. 1882 - d. 1955), Boston; by inheritance to his niece, Lydia Evans Tunnard (Mrs. Christopher Tunnard, b. 1913 - d. 1980), New Haven, CT; 1964, year-end gift of Mrs. Christopher Tunnard to the MFA. (Accession date: January 13, 1965)