Salvatore Castiglione, “The Raising of Lazarus”, 1645

Salvatore Castiglione (1620–1676)—brother of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (aka Il Grechetto) (1609–1664)

“The Raising of Lazarus” (TIB title) (aka “La Résurrection du Lazare”; “Opwekking van Lazarus”; “Resurrection of Lazarus”), 1645

Etching on laid paper with wide margins, backed with a support sheet.

Size: (sheet) 19.1 x 28.8cm; (plate) 11.5 x 21.6cm; (image borderline) 11 x 21.1cm

Inscribed in plate: (lower left corner) “Salvatore Cast Genov 1645”.

TIB 46.1 (Paolo Bellini [ed.] 1982, “The Illustrated Bartsch: Italian Masters of the Seventeenth Century”, vol. 46, New York, Abaris Books, p. 68, cat. no 1 [43]); Bartsch 1 (XXI.43.1) (Adam Bartsch, “Le Peintre Graveur”, Vienna).

The British Museum and the Rijksmuseum offer descriptions of this print: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1982-U-4171 (BM inv. no. 1982,U.4171); https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/200169558.

Condition: a well-printed impression with wide margins laid onto a support of archival (millennium quality) washi paper. Beyond minor marks and faint light burn from previous mounting, the sheet is in a very good condition for its considerable age with no tears, holes, folds or significant stains.

I am selling this rare and marvellous etching portraying with great clarity the Biblical episode in which Christ, shown here in a blaze of heavenly light, brings back to life the previously deceased body of Lazarus, seen in the foreground emerging from the tomb with his shroud stretched out to the left, for AU$571 (currently US$371.96/ EUR351.54/ GBP292.02 at the time of this listing) including Express Mail (EMS) postage and handling to anywhere in the world, but not (of course) any import duties/taxes imposed by some countries. Note that payment is in Australian dollars (AU$571) as this is my currency.

If you are interested in purchasing this bold composition of great breadth, possibly designed by the artist’s famous brother, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (as proposed by the Curator of the British Museum [see BM inv. no. W,6.29]), please contact me (oz_jim@printsandprinciples.com) and I will send you a PayPal invoice to make the payment easy.

Notwithstanding the catalogue entries that this etching is the “only known print by the artist” (see https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_W-6-29), recent research has reattributed another very beautiful print that was once considered to be by the hand of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione to Salvatore Castiglione (see https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/object/Hoofd-van-een-oude-man-met-baard--0ea11280d87683ce9c09256c944c1c91?tab=data) and this reattributed print is (surprisingly) currently still available in an earlier listing: https://www.printsandprinciples.com/2021/01/salvatore-castigliones-etching-head-of.html. 

This print has been sold