Lot 211: Giovanni Francesco Castiglione (Genoa 1641-1710)

A wooded landscape with a falconer and two dogs with dead game, a huntsman beyond
oil on canvas
78 1/2 x 98 1/8 in. (199.4 x 250.2 cm.)

We are grateful to Dr. Mary Newcome Schleier for proposing the attribution to Giovanni Francesco Castiglione on the basis of photographs. Son and pupil of Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, Giovanni Francesco worked with his father and succeeded him as court painter to the Duke of Mantua.

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