Two Seated Kings of Judah; Josiah and Hezekiah

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1591

Bernardo Castello
Italian, 1557-1629

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Artist: Bernardo Castello
Title: Two Seated Kings of Judah; Josiah and Hezekiah
Origin: Italy
Date: 1591
Medium: Pen and brown ink with brush and pale brown wash, heightened with lead white (partly oxidized), on blue laid paper, laid down on ivory wove paper
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower left, in pen and brown ink: "Bernardo Castello"; lower left of center, in pen and brown ink: "IOSIA"; lower center, in pen and brown ink: "P G [?] Sma trinità"; lower right of center, in pen and brown ink: "ESECHIA"
Dimensions: 198 × 267 mm
Credit Line: The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1922.5681

Harold Joachim and Suzanne Folds McCullagh, Italian Drawings of the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries (Chicago and London, 1979), p. 121, 4C5.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh and Laura M. Giles, Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection (Chicago, 1997), p. 77, no. 94 (ill.).

Binghamton, N.Y., University Art Gallery, State University of New York, “Genoese Baroque Drawings,” Oct. 1-31, 1972, cat. 16, p. 7, (ill.); also the Worcester Art Museum, Nov. 8-Dec. 10, 1972.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings Rediscovered: Italian Drawings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago,” Apr. 12-June 22, 1997.

William F. E. Gurley (1854–1943), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago for the Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection, 1922.

McCullagh & Giles 94

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