The subject has been interpreted as The Finding of the Cup in Benjamin’s Sack, from the Old Testament story of Joseph visited by his brothers in Egypt, but the central figures are clearly unearthing (or burying) a large tripod. Castiglione has assimilated the almost geometrical clarity of Poussin’s compositions; the gestures and expressions of the protagonists are varied and appropriate, with more than a hint of Raphael’s seminal tapestry designs of a century before. Cat. 15