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Giulio Benso
1592-1668
The Blood of Christ Redeems the World
ca. 1628-1632
Pen and brown ink and white opaque watercolor over black chalk, squared in black chalk on paper.
22 3/8 x 10 1/4 inches (568 x 273 mm)
Gift of the Kasper Collection.
2020.48
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Benso was the leading Baroque painter in Genoa in the middle of the seventeenth century, but he also painted many works for the Imperial Abbey of St. Martin at Weingarten in Southern Germany. This drawing, one of his greatest, is a preparatory study for the high altar of the monastery church. It is the first work by the artist to enter the Morgan collection.
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Private collection, France; Provincial auction, France; Colnaghi Drawings, London and New York, May 1, 1997; Herbert Kasper (1926-2020), New York.
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