Rebecca at the Well
17th century
Medium
Black chalk, brush and brown ink, brown wash on paper
Dimensions
sheet: 15 x 23 1/2 in. (38.1 x 59.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Charles Ryskamp, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. J. Richardson Dilworth, 2010
Accession Number
2010.360
Tags
About the Artist
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) · 1609–1664
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, known as Il Grechetto, was baptized on March 23, 1609, in Genoa and died on May 5, 1664, in Mantua. Born into a large family, he collaborated closely with his brother Salvatore, an artist who shared his talents, and later taught his son Francesco, whose works were sometimes confused with his own. His parents placed him in the studio of Giovanni Battista Paggi, where...