Birds and Animals around a Dead Tree
Medium
Pen and brown ink, with touches of black chalk, on ivory laid paper, perimeter mounted on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
29.6 × 20.5 cm (11 11/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
111066
About the Artist
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione · 1609–1664
Versatile and eclectic artist open to foreign influence which was unusual for an Italian artist of his time. Some of his best-known works are somewhat fantastical. He was court painter at Mantua from 1648. Comment on works: Religious; Landscapes; Animals; Mythology.