Castiglione is the first artist in Italy known to have borrowed directly from his close contemporary Rembrandt. He was attracted to the Dutch artist’s nocturnal scenes and his expressiveness, and here he copied the five heads at the left from Rembrandt’s large etching of 1636, Ecce Homo. The exotic figure to the right, while not a direct copy, is also very much in the manner of Rembrandt’s ‘character heads’. Cat. 11