Circe with Companions of Ulysses Changed into Animals
1650–51
Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione Italian, 1609-1664
Italy
Castiglione was a prolific painter, etcher, and draftsman who left his native Genoa around 1630 for Rome, where he made contact with important Baroque artists, such as Nicolas Poussin and Pietro Testa.
Etching, touched with graphite, on ivory paper