Old Man with a Turban
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione
1636–1670
- Medium
- Etching on ivory paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.1 × 18.7 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/8 in.); Plate: 11.1 × 8.1 cm (4 3/8 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Genre
- etching
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
Tags
printprints and drawingetchingpaper (fiber product)
About
One of a set of sixteen small heads with "Oriental" headdresses, this plate has a spontaneous quality a depth of characterization that parallel some studies made at the same time by Rembrandt.
